The Prosecutor’s Office investigates ‘false positive’ and dismisses attack reported by Machado

The Public Ministry of Venezuela announced the investigation of an alleged “false positive” related to the attack that opposition leader María Corina Machado reported against her and her team on Thursday.

In “false positive spread” by the opponent who, “without showing any evidence, stated that the vehicles he used to travel allegedly ‘had been attacked’.”

However, Machado showed, in a video published on social networks, the bodywork of the two vehicles, vandalized with white paint, and explained that one of them had “the brake hose” cut and the other had “all the oil drained from the engine”.

According to Saab, the detainee, who would have “been hired by said political leader, is testifying” in the state of Lara “the circumstances of manner, time and place, as well as the amount of money that was paid to create that fact«.

The prosecutor added that it would be “a crime of simulation of a punishable act, dissemination of messages that cause anxiety and panic to the population and money laundering«.

The former deputy, who had spent the night in Barquisimeto – capital of Lara – upon her return from an event in the nearby region of Portuguesa, described this event as an “attack” and held Nicolás Maduro responsible for any damage to her physical integrity and that of others. his collaborators.

On Thursday, the PUD demanded from the Prosecutor’s Office an “exhaustive” investigation of “this very serious” and “criminal” event that – it expressed – “merits not only the repudiation” of the country, but also “the national and international demand” for the dismissal. of “fear and repression as an electoral tool” by the ruling party.

For his part, the presidential candidate of the PUD, Edmundo González Urrutia, called it an act of “cowardice” that threatens “the development of the electoral process”, for which he urged the National Electoral Council (CNE) to act “against to these facts.