Naky Soto, wife of Luis Carlos Díaz: "They said that they were taking a body home to accuse us of murder"

"The first commission of the SEBIN who interviewed him mistreated him." They beat him with the bicycle helmet. They told him that I was detained, that they had me taken to the military hospital. They even said they were taking a body home to accuse us of murder, "said Naky Soto, wife of Luis Carlos Diaz, at the Attorney General's office, where he was mobilized to demand his release.

"They threatened her with me several times because of my oncological condition," the journalist revealed., cancer patient for a little over a year.

After leaving his radio show Monday afternoon, Luis Carlos Diaz was missing for several hours. Neither his wife nor his colleagues knew anything about him, until the SEBIN arrives with him handcuffed in his house, to perform a raid.

"He had disappeared from 5:45 in the afternoon to 2:15 in the morning, when a commission of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) appeared in our house to conduct a search. For that, there was an order that indicated to take all the electronic equipment that we had at home, to see if there was any information on what they are supposed to accuse him of, " Soto said.

According to what the agents told him, the journalist was arrested using as evidence an altered video of a publication made by him, which was broadcast by Diosdado Cabello Accuse him of participating in an alleged sabotage to leave the entire country without electricity.

"He was going to do a special radio show because of the power outage from 10 o'clock in the evening until 5 am He went to the house to change and go to the station. been arrested near the Korean Embbady .. However, the record indicates that he was arrested in flagrante delicto. Did any of you drive bikes and codes mounted? I did not see any hackers with this ability. This is not possible. But they say it because they have no arrest record, "said Soto.

Specifically, Cabello accused him of orchestrating an unlikely electronic attack that, in a strange way, would have collapsed the country's entire electricity supply.

"They took all the money we had and even jewelry," said the woman. "It must be at the headquarters (SEBIN) Plaza Venezuela or helicoid, but they have not specified," he added.

"We demand the arbitrary detention of Luis Carlos. We demand your full freedom and we want to ask the Human Rights Commission United Nations in Caracas to help us know how he is doing physically and psychologically, "said Soto. "It's not just a great reporter, it's my boyfriend, he's my love."