The secret police of Venezuela arrested the number 2 of Juan Guaidó – 05/08/2019

The leader of the opposition, Juan Guaidó, denounced Wednesday the kidnapping of the first vice president of the National Assembly, Edgar Zambrano, by Sebin, the intelligence service that meets Nicolás Maduro.

"The regime kidnapped the first vice president of the National Assembly", alerted Guaidó on Twitter, and a few moments later, it is Zambrano himself who provided the details of the arrest.

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"We were surprised by the SEBIN, refusing to leave our vehicle, They used a crane to move forcibly directly to the helicoid. Democrats are still fighting, "said Zambrano, also on Twitter.

During the arrest, have reacted dozens of neighbors who, in the streets, shouted "freedom" and chanted the anthem of the Democratic Action, because the arrest took place near of the party headquarters.

Diosdado Cabello, the number two of Nicolás Maduro, mocked on the television of detention: "Edgard Zambrano was arrested, one of the police chiefs of the coup. he did not wear his bracelet because Coco Chanel did not send it his bracelet, "he says ironically.

"I tell them history so that they can see how right they are, that they are men," began the story, as the audience laughed and applauded . "What for the commission." He called and sent messages saying that they had surrounded me and locked me in the car, convinced that the Sebin was going to eat this story. From there I do not move, he says: they put a crane on the car", he laughed.

A few minutes before the arrest, Zambrano had declared to the same social network that at 6:35 pm, they were surrounded by the Sebin: "We are in our vehicle from the facilities of Acción Democrática in Florida", did he writes.

Zambrano's parliamentary immunity was lifted Tuesday by the ANC, a forum not recognized by the opposition or by several world governments, for its alleged involvement in several crimes related to the failed military uprising of the week last led by Guaidó.

The ANC also lifted the immunity of six other deputies who supported the uprising, namely Luis Florido, Mariela Magallanes, Americo de Grazia, Richard Blanco and Simón Calzadilla; but for the moment the arrest of any of them has not occurred.

This is Henry Ramos Allup, deputy of the National Assembly, the first to denounce detention on social networks.

"Right now, a long arm is surrounding the truck where Edgard Zambrano's first vice-president goes to AD's head office in La Florida," he warned.

Seven patrols of the Bolivian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) arrested the Vice President of the National Assembly (AN). The incident occurred minutes after the MP denounced his entourage by political police officers armed with long arms outside the headquarters of the party Democratic Action, located in La Florida.

Earlier, the Supreme Court of Justice again targeted parliament and ordered three other opposition MPs to be tried for "blatant commission" of crimes such as treason and conspiracy.

The new decision comes hours after the Constituent Assembly, with a majority Chavez, decided, at the request of the highest court, to lift the parliamentary immunity of seven legislators accused of having supported the failed military rebellion led by Juan Guaidó, Speaker of Parliament. recognized as interim president, with whom he asked Nicolás Maduro's "termination of the usurpation" to the presidency.

By a statement, the highest court announced that the new defendants, deputies Freddy Superlano, Sergio Vergara and Juan Andrés Mejía, are accused of "flagrant commission of crimes of treason, conspiracy, instigation of". insurrection, and civil rebellion ".