In statements to the press from the headquarters of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the head specified that he observed with extreme critical evaluation how in recent weeks and, especially in recent days, this global crusade to “expose those who fomented terrorist and criminal acts” has intensified.
He clarified that the one who has the expertise, can gather the elements of conviction and has under his command the auxiliary organs of justice is the Public Prosecutor’s Office and is not “a private individual, a media outlet, an influencer, a YouTuber or an anonymous social network.”
Saab recalled that starting on July 28, and particularly on July 29 and 30, “very regrettable, criminal and delinquent events” occurred, which unleashed a wave of violence with deaths, injuries and the destruction of almost 500 public assets, including city halls, schools and police headquarters.
These institutions, he indicated, were destroyed by people who used bombs, conventional and non-conventional firearms, “to kill and injure in a criminal manner” innocent Venezuelans, using this as an excuse “the electoral results” transmitted by the Electoral Power.
He detailed that during those fateful days, 28 people lost their lives and more than a thousand were injured, including 95 adults, three teenagers, 97 police officers, members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigation Corps.
The senior official emphasized that those who committed these acts are not political prisoners or prisoners of conscience, but “criminals who agreed to carry out terrorist and criminal actions, paid by the so-called commandos,” created by the Venezuelan far right.
He reiterated that the objective of these people was to unleash a civil war and the projection indicates that if the same thing happened as in the guarimbas of 2017, deaths would have risen to three thousand, but it was prevented by the rapid action of the State, the Prosecutor’s Office, the security organs and the people themselves.
“It seems totally unethical to me that these cases are presented again and again as if they had a political nature,” emphasized the jurist.
In Venezuela, he stressed, there are no children detained, but there are adolescents between 16 and 17 years old who confessed they were used and the vast majority are adults, who declared they committed these acts of violence.
Saab confessed as a revealing detail that after several months, up to this point “there has not been a single complaint” from any family member of any of these victims linking the incident to any police force or any agent of the Venezuelan State and if there were, “we documented it, prosecuted it and sanctioned it,” he added.
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