The Supreme Court of Chavista has imposed criminal prosecution on seven opposition MPs for supporting "Operation Libertad"

The chavista of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) ordered Tuesday Penal prosecute seven deputies of the Venezuelan opposition for the "flagrant commission" of crimes such as treason against the fatherland and conspiracy, announced the court, a week after these legislators supported the operation "Libertad" launched by the president acting, Juan Guaidó.

In a statement, the Court stated that He ordered that the decision be sent to the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, "to continue the treatment of the corresponding criminal case", as well as the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), which had planned to lift the immunity of parliamentarians who supported the uprising against the dictator Nicolás Maduro.

"As this is a flagrant commission of common law crimes (…), the preliminary hearing of the aforementioned citizens' merit does not apply, so their prosecution correspond to ordinary courts in criminal matters, "adds the brief.

The seven members are: Henry Ramos Allup (AD), Luis Germán Florido (independent), Marianela Magallanes López (LCR), José Simón Calzadilla Peraza (Progressive Movement), Andrés Enrique Delgado Velázquez, American De Grazia (LCR) and Richard José Blanco Delgado (ABP).

The former Attorney General of Venezuela, Luis Ortega Díaz, exiled to Bogota, repudiated via your Twitter account l & # 39; failure: "It's a legal problem!" The infamous TSJ calls the constitutional duty to restore democracy a crime. " They relaunched the plan of 2017 when I denounced their intention to annihilate the National Assembly. This action is not only against the deputies, it is against all Venezuelans! "

The Supreme Court had already authorized the pursuit of the vice-president of the National Assembly last week, Edgar Zambrano, by an ordinary court, without considering his jurisdiction, because of several crimes related to the uprising against Maduro.

Several members of Parliament, the only Venezuelan body in the hands of the opposition, supported Guaidó on April 30 to carry out the final phase of "Operation Libertad", with which he seeks to shield Maduro from power.

Here is the complete document:

According to the request of the Attorney General of the Republic, the Plenary Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) has decided that the facts that are the subject of the petition compromise the responsibility of citizens: Henry Ramos Allup, Luis Germán Florido, Marianela Magallanes López, José Simón Calzadilla Peraza, Andrés Enrique Delgado Velázquez, Américo De Grazia and Richard José Blanco Delgado, in the flagrant commission of the crimes of "Treason to the Fatherland, Conspiracy, Uprising, Uprising, Civil Rebellion, Concert in delinquency, Usurpation of functions, public prosecution against disobedience of laws and the maintenance of hatred, provided for and punishable under Articles 128, 132, 143, 145, 163, 213, 285, all of the Penal Code, respectively, and of the Association, provided for and punished Article 37 of the Organic Law against organized crime and the financing of terrorism ".

The decision of the plenary Court orders a certified copy of the procedure to the President of the National Constituent Assembly so that the said body can determine what is appropriate, in accordance with Article 200 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Constitutional Chamber of the High Judgment, for your knowledge and for other purposes.

He recalls the decision, with a presentation by Judge Yván Darío Bastardo Flores, President of the Civil Cbadation Chamber, who, in the context of the present proceedings, considers that it is a flagrant committing common crimes, in accordance with the provisions of Decision No. 1684 of December 4, 2008, issued by the Constitutional Chamber of the High Court, the preliminary hearing of the merits of the aforementioned citizens does not apply, as a result of which his proceedings correspond to the ordinary courts in criminal matters, in accordance with the provisions of Article 378 of the Organic Code. Penal procedure.

Similarly, it is ordered to send a certified copy of the judgment to the Attorney General of the Republic, Mr. Tarek William Saab, so that he continues the handling of the criminal case corresponding to the due process and the constitutional rights provided for in the Code of Procedure for Organic Matters. Criminal, the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the laws, treaties, conventions and international agreements subscribed and ratified by the Republic.