Venezuelan president Maduro shows ‘CONFESSION of ASSASSINATION attempt’ after drone attack

The former president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, and the ex-leader of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Julio Borges, have been accused by the socialist leader of participating in a drone attack last Saturday.

Some of the alleged culprits of the attack have been captured and handed over to authorities, Maduro claimed, while presenting the supposed evidence.

Maduro said: “Several of the declarations indicated Julio Borges. The investigations point to him.”

But Agence France-Presse said Borges tweeted that the alleged assassination attempt was a staged farce. Borges said: “Neither the country nor the world believe you when it comes to this farce of an attack, we all know that it was staged to persecute and repress those of us who oppose your dictatorship.”

One of the confessions also included former military Juan Carlos Monasterios Venegas.

While the president showed the videos, the secret police SEBIN (Bolivarian Services of National Intelligence) arrested the opposition MP of the Primero Justicia party, Juan Requesens and his sister R. Requesens, President of the Federation of University Centres.

On the afternoon of August 4, a failed attack occurred during the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard in the Bolivar Avenue, where seven soldiers were injured after two drones exploded. Shocking images after lawmakers attacked at Venezuelan National Assembly Wed, July 5, 2017

Clashes erupted outside Venezuela’s National Assembly in Caracas between supporters of embattled President Nicolas Maduro and opposition lawmakers Play slideshow REUTERS 1 of 9 Opposition lawmaker Stefanelli gestures next to fellow opposition lawmaker Leonardo Regnault after a group of government supporters burst into Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly during a session, in Caracas Maduro said the minister of the interior, Nestor Reverol, told him they had already captured the perpetrators 10 minutes after the attack.

The socialist leader said: “There were two criminal drones from a group trained in Colombia.

“We already have the direct links of the participation of important Venezuelan politicians, involved in the preparation of these terrorist groups.

«With the second explosion, I realised it was an attack in full development and that’s when I answered the call of the Military House to proceed with the evacuation of the entire presidential platform. “Two explosive drones were planned: the first one, which is the one that actually exploded on Bolívar Avenue and the second one that was disoriented as a result of inhibition mechanisms and that collided with the Eduardo Building.”

He added that the assassins will “receive the harshest of judicial penalties contemplated by our legal system”, and they chose Bolivar Avenue as the best place to carry out an attack because they “knew that it is would be attended by the President of the Republic”.

Maduro also mentioned the Venezuelan Salvatore Lucchese, former head of the San Diego Municipal Police in Valencia, who admitted to Reuters in Bogota of his collaboration in the plot.

The former police chief was also imprisoned in the past for his role in multiple protests.

He said the so-called «resistance» is diffusely made up of street activists, students and former military officers.

Additional reporting by Maria Ortega