Caracas, Aug 11 (EFE).- Former deputy Williams Dávila has been incommunicado for three days after being arrested on Thursday at the end of a demonstration called by the main opposition coalition in Venezuela, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), in the context of the post-electoral crisis that the country is going through, the family of the anti-Chavez activist assured EFE on Sunday.
William Dávila, the son of the former deputy, explained that relatives and lawyers have tried unsuccessfully to obtain information about the place where his father was held, who was captured in the east of Caracas by subjects who “took him away” aboard “an unmarked van.”
“Since then we have heard nothing, we have no communication, we have no official information of any kind and, therefore, we do not know exactly, we understand that he was the victim of a forced disappearance,” said Dávila, who recalled that his father, 73 years old, has a medical condition for which he needs medication on a daily basis.
He explained that on Saturday the lawyers tried to file a legal action before the Prosecutor’s Office to “force” the authorities to report the place of detention, but the claim was not admitted on the grounds – he said – that these requests are attended to from Monday to Friday.
He also pointed out that the former deputy, who underwent surgery “a few months ago,” must take anticoagulants daily due to the risk of “having complications” related to the operation.
“We are very worried, because what we urgently need is to have access to him to bring him medicines so that he can be medicated,” she insisted.
This arrest was carried out despite the fact that legal regulations establish that people over 70 years of age cannot be subject to “preventive judicial deprivation of liberty” and that, if any precautionary measure is needed, “house arrest or confinement in a specialized center will be ordered.”
The Portuguese government on Friday demanded the “immediate and unconditional release” of Dávila, after recalling that the politician has Portuguese nationality and “was detained arbitrarily and in poor health.”
According to the Venezuelan government, more than 2,400 people have been arrested in the context of the protests unleashed after the elections of July 28, whose official result delivered by the National Electoral Council (CNE) gave the victory to President Nicolás Maduro, which has been pointed out as fraudulent by the PUD, numerous countries and international organizations.
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2024-08-13 01:22:35
