Justice of Venezuela investigates Guaidó for the electrical crisis – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

The Venezuelan Attorney General, Tarek Saab, announced Tuesday the opening of an investigation against the Speaker of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, for his presumed responsibility in the electricity crisis that the country has been experiencing since Thursday. latest.

"The public prosecutor's office opened a new investigation (…) against the citizen Juan Gerardo Guaidó Márquez for his alleged involvement in the sabotage of the National Electrical System (SEN)," Saab told the Supreme Court of Caracas.

He explained that this file is added to another case opened last January against Guaidó because of his proclamation as interim president, a measure taken by the opposition with the support of Parliament and a fifty or so countries believing that Nicolás Maduro usurps the presidency.

The prosecutor presented as "revealing fact" a message broadcast by Guaidó on his Twitter account two hours after the power outage, in which he said: "Venezuela clearly knows that the light comes with the cessation of the violence. usurpation".

He insisted that the power outage, which affected almost the entire country and had not yet been completely resolved, "entered a more and more desperate escalation to overthrow a legitimately constituted government ", in reference to Maduro's executive.

"At that time (Guaidó) appears as one of the intellectual writers of this electrical sabotage and this call for a civil war in the midst of this blackout that has lived the Venezuelan nation", has it -he declares.

The criminal justice official also said that the Speaker of Parliament had "almost directly" incited the theft of private property, as well as other "alarmist" and "scandalous" spokespersons.

He indicated that the Office of the Prosecutor had "some detainees in some parts of the country" for acts of violence since the beginning of the power outage, but did not provide further details in this regard.

The Supreme Court imposed on Mr. Guaidó provisional measures that forbade him to leave Venezuela, but the anti-Chavez leader made fun of it in February when he went to five countries. South America where he was received at the head by governments who recognize him as such.

According to the Maduro government, power outages are due to a cyber attack by the United States and local opponents. They have kept the electrical system unstable from almost the entire country since Thursday at 21:00 GMT. EFE