The dictatorship of Maduro has accused Roberto Marrero of terrorism, the head of the office of Juan Guaidó arrested Thursday

The announcement of charges against Marrero

The dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro accused Roberto Marrero, principal collaborator of the president of the Parliament of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, and to have been arrested Thursday morning during an operation, for having directed a terrorist cell.

In a message broadcast on the state television channel, the Minister of Interior and Justice, Néstor Reverol, accused Marrero of being "directly responsible for the organization of these criminal groups "and stated that "he was seized of a batch of weapons of war and money in foreign currency "during Thursday's raid.

Reverol said the intelligence services "once again dismantled a terrorist cell that was planning to conduct a series of selective attacks and I would have hired Colombian and Central American mercenaries. "

According to Reverol, the goal of this terrorist cell would be to attack the lives of political leaders, military personnel, judges of the Supreme Court and "acts of sabotage to public services to create chaos in Venezuelan society."

The minister said that Luis Alberto Páez, an escort of Marerro, had also been arrested.

"Faced with the failure of the coup they had planned, given the failure of attempts to enter the line of humanitarian aid (…) and the victory of the population in the face of the shock electrical, these groups continue in their spiral of violence to cause trouble … (…) in their terrorist plans, "he said.

He added that the detainees "are part of a larger group that is currently fully identified and that the intelligence agencies have after their capture".

Guaidó, recognized president of Venezuela by more than fifty countries, called Thursday "kidnapping" and "awkwardness" of the government at the arrest of his chief of staff during a raid carried out in dawn by members of the Bolivian intelligence services. National

He also badured that he had received information from senior government officials Nicolás Maduro that they indicated that the president did not order the action, declaring that the chain of command "was broken" and that some security organs acted alone.

Deputy Sergio Vergara, a neighbor of Marrero whose house was also raided early this morning, told reporters that the head of Guaidó's office told him during his transfer by members of the Sebin that they had placed weapons in his apartment during the operation.