Venezuela's Attorney General, William Saab, offered statements to the press regarding the most recent violent attacks against the government of President Nicolas Maduro after the presidential elections. teleSUR
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00:00is providing statement. Let's listen.
00:05In 2017, it was directed by a group of mercenaries. Unfortunately, the state of Venezuela
00:16hindered that, prevented that plan, and we have provided the names,
00:21the names of the culprits. The head of the company that executed such a terrorist action
00:31was Lester Toledo, wanted for justice. And they tried to execute this blackout
00:44in the transmission of the acts. It's on the map, you can locate the site of this
00:59incident in the border. And the issue that comes after this,
01:06that it happened after yesterday, it was that they were just on their way with violent acts,
01:21which are not surprising. We provided information through our
01:36informative networks about the ones who were accountable for these actions. Unfortunately,
01:49they used again many minors, teenagers, people under the effects of drugs, who
02:01were burned down consecutively. They will tell us that it is a peaceful rally,
02:13as it happened in the past, but these detainees and prosecuted people, they will
02:22place them on the list of wanted for the government. They burned police headquarters,
02:33they burned down health centers, they tore down the monuments of Venezuela,
02:47they tore down a monument in homage to the Saint Jose, and likewise, the brutal attack
03:03to public venues as the headquarters of the electoral council and the headquarters in Suate,
03:16people, armed people launching bombs, burning down venues and public centers. I want to highlight
03:26that all these people that I have been mentioning, this data, these incidents, these events,
03:33that I am explaining to you, all these people are arrested. They have been prosecuted,
03:45and besides that, I want to recall that for the serious of their crimes,
03:57they could be attached to other cases and destruction of, it's not like that.
04:08They committed acts of terrorism, acts of inciting, of killing Venezuelans. Those cowards,
04:18those cowards who used a double standard speech. We are going to walk with our families to go to
04:29the national electoral council venue, and do you think that the visual reality that they are
04:40referring to, which families are you placing, lady, your family in front of an attack of burning down
04:51public headquarters, and inciting to kill, to burn down alive human beings for your sustaining
05:06your political neo-Nazi, for your sustaining your neo-Nazi policy. This prosecutor's office
05:16is not accomplished, and you want to be impugned, and you will, so this,
05:28we are, so the prosecutor's office, in all their times, they just provided support to
05:39all these criminals, but today we are not like that. We have the accurate data of these crimes,
05:51and these criminals killed a member of the Bolivarian armed forces. They shot down
06:00this military, and they brought him, and they jumped him to water, and these actions,
06:09these crimes are unforgivable, and in 2017, let's recall that
06:19a group of criminals burned down public centers, and
06:28they weren't, these crimes weren't prosecuted. They were pardoned,
06:36but I am seeing very concerned, but I am not surprised
06:43of an international TV channel that they are saying these criminals are menacing
06:54families, officials, and the images have been seen, the fire, how are they, how they are
07:06burning down public centers, and they are broadcasting protests in Venezuela, because
07:16they don't recognize the results of elections. In Venezuela, they are not having riots, but
07:27just the spotlights of criminals who have been attacking and trying to generate chaos.
07:41They want a scale or an escalation of violence nationwide, but they are not achieving so.
07:51I greet, I praise the action of the Venezuelan state of charging with
08:03those crimes, as they have the facade of
08:11in the fascism, and they don't want to recognize the results of the elections. The only
08:18body that exists here in Venezuela, the National Electoral Council, has the power of issuing
08:29results. No one here is going to set or allow the resurgence of what it implied
08:42in getting advantage that it was at the head of the legislative power that was self-proclaimed
08:54president, and as of that event, he robbed the assets of Venezuela in the United Kingdom,
09:07over one billion dollars in gold, and one billion dollars in Portugal, and it won't happen
09:20anything like that again. The prosecutor's office is acting alongside several official institutions,
09:30and we are just assessing the crimes. These crimes are very serious. We are watching
09:42brutal terrorist acts and instigation to order, and we are not going to tolerate that. We are
09:52we are not going to allow them to occur in this country.
09:58So, I just said on Sunday at a press briefing alongside the public powers, the
10:14controller's office, among other entities, that literally there weren't any incidents in
10:20Venezuela despite the vast turnout that were at the polling stations, and we weren't in many
10:35press briefings from the time we dismantled the Bracelete Blanco
10:47plan, and we, the Jesus Maria Casal, and the members of the fraudulent primaries,
10:56they told us that they have committed, that we have committed,
11:07well, they have committed just fraud, and they just disclosed fake news about the primaries.
11:16Some people were at the, there were 3,000, and they said three million people
11:26were participating in that event, and so they are,
11:33they are,
11:40well, they brought down those, those evidence, those acts when they did this
11:49mockery theater, but this time it's not like that. This time it is, there is an electoral power,
11:57there is an automated electoral system which has several, three components in which
12:07the voter can verify, can first cast his vote or her vote on the computer, and then to verify it
12:20on the print paper, and that's the reality today, and I intend to do, to do again that
12:30mockery theater, and each member of the, members of the electoral primaries, they confessed
12:40those actions, and it, it is the same methodology they want to use, they wanted to use,
12:49as they confessed that how, how he has set up all that mockery, electoral mockery.
13:00This was condemned by the National Electoral Council, and over 1,000 international observers
13:12have been present among them, several former presidents, and now it is my turn to give you
13:21the account, the balance account of the prosecutor's office attached to constitution and law abided,
13:30and against these armed criminals. That's why I, I want to give you more details,
13:43to give, to make a clear difference. In 2014, 2017, they have part of missionaries
13:55that they pay off, because we, we already checked by interviews, and these detainees
14:06revealed that in some cases for ten dollars, or for 20k, for 20 dollars, and they even said that
14:16for just candies, they were sent to the streets, to take to the streets, to burn down
14:23highways, and to, to cause bloodshed across the country, and besides that, they, they told that
14:36they summoned a sector of the middle class, a faction of, we could say, people who live in
14:46urban areas at the east of Caracas, or in some municipalities of some states of Carabobo,
14:57Managua, and so on, and then we are going to refer to similar places in the country. They placed,
15:08they used people of this social sector to be accompanied with armed criminals,
15:16and this time it has not been like that, because the people of Venezuela has raised awareness of
15:24this, and we haven't seen any of these, this middle class to accompany these armed criminals.
15:37We have seen, and I want to conclude with this, we have seen criminals,
15:47criminals,
15:50criminals, and these are just,
15:57we have seen them using hate speech, and we have seen them very high under defense of drugs,
16:08and you will see how they were crying,
16:14crying, they all were crying after being arrested, apologizing,
16:21don't send me, don't send me to prison, they ordered me to do so, they ordered me, they ordered
16:29us to kill and burn down people alive, burn down public centers, and you will go to burn down the
16:41health center, you will kill workers and military, on behalf of who? Of freedom of thought, that was
16:53when, when it was the corrupted prosecutor that favored with impunity all that happened,
17:06but we are here, the prosecutor's officers here is dignified, is with dignity and defend,
17:15defending democracy, defending the popular ballots, the popular vote, that's, hence I want
17:23to highlight that we are already, we are already investigating these detainees,
17:34and we are just charging them with instigation to hate,
17:39with resistance to authority, and in the most serious cases, terrorism,
17:48and of course, they are being sentenced, they are being bailed,
17:54and so far, there have been 749 people arrested, criminals arrested, and
18:09allegedly, they, you remembered in 2017, they called themselves as liberators,
18:19and 749 of these criminal detainees, and anyone who dared to suggest that yesterday,
18:32there were happening peaceful rallies, I want to inform you that there have been
18:40some injured, so 48 officials and police officers, so tell me people of Venezuela,
18:52can we accept this? Can the United States accept this, if it would happen there?
18:58And the international outlets have been just spreading and giving them propaganda,
19:17and so they are just broadcasting live these terrorist acts that have been produced in the
19:26country, and unfortunately, within this framework of almost 50 officials injured,
19:34there have been a dignified military official in Maracay, state of Aragua, by product of the
19:47gunshots of these criminals. I would like to mention some, case one,
20:00fire to the electoral council in Falcón, who dared to say to me that this was a family meeting,
20:10for allegedly to deliver a document and rally peacefully. A group of people here
20:18carried out a criminal act, in which they launched a lot of bombs, stones, and entering
20:28into the electoral council, which was attacked by these criminals, who after destroying the assets
20:35of that place, they proceeded to burn the facility down. Let's see the video.
20:51That's the people grabbing what belongs to us, because everything that is here, it belongs to us.
21:02We are going to burn everything down, and we are going to make those authorities leave.
21:19You are hearing the voice of a criminal. They looked up a lot to
21:28Silvio Guerrero, the Patacabra, the alias monkey, and that was, and outlets,
21:44they said that this is a democratic leader, and the leader of the far right, and that's this.
21:53Well, now let's see another, a second case, an attempt on the life of an official in Caracas.
22:02They persecuted a military official, and they attacked him physically, and they
22:15burned him alive. Let's see these images.
22:23Go, go.
22:36Beat him, beat him.
22:44Surely, the international outlets and NGOs that are paid off by NATO,
22:55and are saying that these are peaceful, peaceful protesters, and they are killers,
23:07they are hitmen. The people arrested are going to be prosecuted by the crime of terrorism,
23:15because trying to kill and burn down a military is not an act of a peaceful demonstration.
23:26I want to show the burning down of the house of the government party. It happened in Tigre.
23:40There have been eight people arrested, Mario Maita,
23:45Laide Rondon, Jesus Rafael Salazar, Simon Otunez,
23:54Simons Santa Rosa, Luis Miguel Ramos, Ricardo Medina, and a 15-year-old teenager,
24:03all were arrested while they were committing acts of vandalism located in the
24:12Tigre municipality in front of Bolivar Square. Let's see this video.
24:43Here, you see, I want to see the photo on the screen. These are these criminals with their
24:56faces crying. What you have been seeing here, all of them were crying, were apologizing,
25:06because they were paid off. You cannot ask for mercy. You will be prosecuted,
25:17even if the FACED organization came here to claim for them.
25:26The outlets are just mentioning that they are
25:36inheritors of Martin Luther King and prophets of Buddha and Jesus.
25:44Don't be surprised that this will be the speech that you find in the media outlets. We are showing
25:52this in real time, and I want to underscore that these vandalic acts occurred against the
26:02Monument of Saints loved by Venezuela, Dr. Menanzuete, and criminals were arrested,
26:14and they were committing acts of vandalism, the profanation and destruction of the monument
26:30located in the Tigre municipality, and they tried to tear it down without success,
26:40as the security forces interfered in on time.
26:52So, this was one of the worst we did in 2010, the monument I referred, and I want to
27:04to see you these two subjects, let's see their faces.
27:12The faces of hatred, not only of hatred, but they have been,
27:20they are drug addicts,
27:23they have to have an insane mind to try to tear down a monument paying homage to such a saint.
27:44A monument paying homage to such a saint,
27:49and then some, I want to refer to some other criminals who search
27:59for killing a citizen who could belong to Chavista sector. They imagine they,
28:07the citizen could belong to Chavism, and they attack him, and we initiated an identification,
28:20we initiated, we opened an investigation to identify these criminals that attacked a square
28:32which attacked this citizen who tried to to get away, but they grabbed him.
29:02So, you will see that the commission of human rights in Geneva,
29:13the NGO of human rights, will say that these killers who almost killed these men in
29:26square, they are persecuted by the Venezuelan government and they deserve to be
29:33awarded, and the award will be that they will have a sentence, because this what they have been
29:41doing there, what they did there, and if we, the bad thing about these actions,
29:56well, likewise, I want to highlight the profanation of another monument.
30:10You can see, they have clear targets. They went against Jose Gregorio monument, and against
30:22another monument of a hero against the Spanish colonialism, and the journey,
30:40well, these criminals committed crimes of vandalism, they hate the indigenous people,
30:48they hate everything that identified our origins, and don't be surprised, they began to
31:01burn down Bolivar's monuments and other libertators. They profaned a monument,
31:10and dragged the image of the monument under the area, and they burned down,
31:20and let's see this criminal act.
31:36I repeat, these are chunks of long videos, we will continue posting on our information
31:51networks, and there is a seven case, of those dozen cases we have, the destruction of an image
32:01of commander Chavez in Carabobos, the prosecutor's office officer initiated an investigation
32:10of ads against the Chavista sector, they destroyed an image of commander Chavez in Carabobos state.
32:22Let's see video nine.
32:52So,
33:00we will see it, we will see it one by one,
33:20after they being arrested, and we have another case, the prosecutor's office
33:30opened an investigation to identify the group of criminals who attacked
33:35the hospital of Coche, what has to do a health center with,
33:44they caused serious damages to the state of Venezuela, and compromising the
33:52services of that health facility.
34:15Likewise, we want to show you the destruction of a spot of the
34:25PMBV in Caracas, where there is a police point to protect the people in the area, and
34:37they attacked a point of control in the calvary, in which they used to try to
34:46hinder the highways, the routes for
35:06the people. One of the first incidents I want to show you, and we have already
35:12published it, was the attempt of burning down with personnel inside in the Veracruz.
35:31As we can see, they are using minors there. In most of the cases, we have been
35:44seeing that they are using morotov bombs, and arms, and minors, even children.
35:54What we are seeing there is an attempt of the burning down of the mayorship
36:02in the municipality, and there we have arrested 29 criminals,
36:15and let's see if they will be classified as political persecuted, and I want to refer
36:24that we have 749 arrested, and they will be trialed in the
36:38respective courts, and I want to ratify that the prosecutor's office,
36:45on 24 hours, at midnight, morning, evening, we are active for a real time to act against
36:58these criminals, because as I said initially, this prosecutor's office is different. It is
37:07is defending peace, dignity, and the Venezuelan people, which I want to congratulate, and I give
37:16my top support for keeping up our unity, and defending sovereignty, and not allow
37:26the interference of external powers that want to invade and glory to the brave Venezuelan people.
37:46Statements live from Caracas from the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab,
37:51where he referred and updated on how the investigations are going into the violent
37:55incidents incited by the far-right opposition against the electoral power, against the people
38:00of Venezuela, against the peace of Venezuela. He reported that there are over 700 people arrested
38:04that were responsible for criminal acts of violence carried out in the late Monday,
38:11of acts that were incited by the far-right, as he expressed, and people that have been
38:15described by the international media, which he condemned as peaceful protesters. He provided
38:21video evidence that showed that what these people were doing could not be, in any case,
38:27be described as peaceful protests. The Attorney General also congratulated the Venezuelan people
38:32for being steadfast in defense of democracy, and for the way that they behaved during the electoral
38:37system, and also made a promise that this Attorney General, this public ministry, would not be
38:43indifferent to the criminal acts that are being carried out in Venezuela, and they will continue
38:47with the investigations, and they will prosecute everyone that is involved in these criminal acts
38:52that are occurring in the country. Stay tuned with Treasurer English for more.
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