Police entered the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington and arrested the activists who occupied it – 16/05/2019

The police USA He entered the Venezuelan Embbady on Thursday morning. in Washington and expelled the four militants who were still inside the siege, denounced the militants themselves.

Carlos Vecchio, Acting Venezuelan Ambbadador to the Acting President of Venezuela Juan Guaidó, recognized by Washington, celebrated the expulsion.

"Apart from the invaders of our embbady, ​​the usurpation has stopped," he tweeted.

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The national communication center, which serves as Guaidó's press office, also claimed that the embbady had been "recovered".

According to Vecchio, after the expulsion, security agencies have examined the building on Thursday to ensure all the details before you can take control of the seat.

The embbady, ​​whose diplomatic staff had not been there since April, had been taken over by "Pink code", a movement of North American activists allegedly invited by Nicolás Maduro to protect the siege.

Medea Benjamin of the Code Pink group has denounced on Twitter the police entry and the "illegal" arrest of the four activists expelled in "total violation of the Vienna conventions – shame!"

Already on Wednesday, the police had arrived with an eviction order and had invited the militants to leave the siege, but had warned them that if they refused to leave the building, they would be arrested, which finally happened Thursday. There were only four activists in the interior.

Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday demanded respect from the Venezuelan Embbady in Washington.

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"The Trump government has violated the Venezuelan Embbady in Washington and is responsible, under international law, for a serious breach not only of law, but also of morality," he said.

Maduro congratulated the Ambbadador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, to the American citizen groups protecting the Venezuelan Embbady and Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights activist in the United States, who presented several food shipments to the diplomatic headquarters on Wednesday.

"Every day, we fight, thank you very much for this demonstration of courage and morality, hands of Donald Trump, outside the hands of the Venezuelan imperialism," he said.

On Thursday, Carlos Vecchio thanked the "US Government, the State Department and the security forces for their support in the implementation of international laws and treaties".

Since its occupation earlier this month, the US Embbady has become one of the scenes of the political pulse of Guaidó and Maduro.

Vecchio announced in March that he had taken control of the offices of defense attachés and air and naval forces in Washington and the consulate in New York, which the executive interpreted as "a forced occupation and illegal. "

However, the embbady resisted, occupied by the so-called Collective of Protection or Code Pink.

Last week, Vecchio cut the light, despite the fact that Chavez supporters stayed inside.

The Embbady is located in Georgetown, an elegant district of Washington that does not usually see tents in the streets, awnings and hundreds of people with banners and music to full volume. During his occupation, the pro-Guaidó diaspora in Venezuela surrounded the siege and demanded his deportation.

The headquarters was surrounded by fences, patrol cars, police officers and secret service agents who controlled all movements. Neighbors look incredulous at an unexpected landscape in this area of ​​typical English brick houses costing several million dollars.

At the height of the embbady occupation, about 50 people were inside, sleeping on couches or on the floor, sharing culinary tasks and participating in artistic and musical activities. Then there were 15. And this Thursday only four people were finally expelled.

Source: dpa and ANSA