Venezuelan Attorney General William Saab presents images of detainees arrested for acts of violence across the country, along with evidence of their involvement. teleSUR
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00:00Beyond that plan of chanting fraud, we are not surprised about the plans of the far-right.
00:17For me, what the public opinion or international opinion didn't count, they have clear spots
00:34of fascist groups which were counteracted by the police.
00:45These criminals were in popular areas, and they started their attacks on Monday, July
00:5729th.
00:58And I came here, accompanied by several authorities, the public defender, and here in our prosecutor's
01:10office.
01:11And I said that this was the July 28th elections in which President Nicolás Maduro Moros was
01:21elected.
01:22These elections had no incidents, and the people were at their family houses, just calm
01:37in peace, waiting for their results as it was broadcasted by the President of the Electoral
01:49Council.
01:50On Monday and on Tuesday, we have tranquility.
01:58And we are achieving that because effectively, the justice system, we have justice authorities
02:11we have been acting to show clearly, and even we are going to give certain leverage to some
02:18Venezuelans, Venezuelans who live inside or abroad, or any international community
02:28that can have some doubts of what happened in 2014 and what's happening now.
02:38On 2014-2017, they committed these similar violent actions in which they involved the
02:54children for setting fire to people and buildings.
02:59All these actions and illegal actions were sanctioned by our management, because in the
03:10previous management, there was impunity by authorities from 2014 to 2017.
03:23I mean, all this that I just told you, I could highlight a disrupting point in which
03:32they have tried this time.
03:34You don't see this time.
03:36No one can point it out to me that you have seen these uprisings, in these brutal negative
03:43acts, that you have seen students, that you have seen members of some union or some social
03:52movement protesting for allegedly fraud.
03:59You haven't seen peaceful demonstrations of abiding to the law or constitution of these
04:16movements.
04:17What you have seen, because in some ways, just with excerpts, that when these actions
04:30are broadcasted, there's a cut and accounts are deleted, because they want to do a blackout
04:46an informative blackout, and I want to reveal in this press briefing that the before and
04:56after of people that appear to be on strike, that they are going to set fire to buildings,
05:08to headquarters of the electoral council or mayor's office.
05:17This has nothing to do with a participative electoral process.
05:22And then afterwards, those who we have seen committing these actions, which nothing have
05:30to do with the peaceful activities, they are crying arrested.
05:36Because unlike what happened from 2014 and 2017, this prosecutor's office once allowed
05:45an escalation of violence, and as these far-right actors said, they intend to search an isolation
05:59front of our country, and this new Lima group will fail on their attempts.
06:10That's why I would like to show you a video.
06:16It has five minutes, because I want you to see with details the sequence in several states
06:25of the country of these brutal actions of these groups that are not peaceful protesters,
06:35and we have warned the international organizations that they are boasting about being protectors
06:46of human rights, but they have allowed the genocide and extermination of the brutal massacre
06:54by the Zionist state of Israel, being quiet about everything that happened there.
07:01And there, the Alish persecuted political prisoners, they are spotting houses for setting
07:13fire to them, and even if they don't have any evidence that these violent protesters
07:23have been murdered, they have simulated punishable acts.
07:31They fall on the ground, and they throw them some tomato sauce, and then it appears a fat
07:43guy lying on the floor, and then come that we have made that theater.
07:51Well, I want to show you this video in which there you see the criminal actions of these
08:01people that have already said they are planned, they named tiny commands.
08:08Let's see the video.
09:08Beat him, beat him, beat him with a stick.
09:38Beat him, beat him, beat him with a stick.
10:06Beat him, beat him, beat him with a stick.
10:26We are watching images from videos that are being presented by the Attorney General Tarek
10:30William Saab, Attorney General of Venezuela, as evidence of all these violent actions that
10:35have been carried out by the far right, and by the groups, criminal groups that have been
10:41sponsored by the far right, as has been denounced by the Attorney General Tarek William Saab,
10:45evidence of all the crimes they are committing under the auspices of these far right groups
10:51and their sponsors from the states and their allies.
11:07As we continue to see these images, the Attorney General Tarek William Saab denounces as well
11:11that these criminal groups are staging fake death as people are lying on the ground and pouring
11:25tomato sauce on them to stage that the people were killed by an alleged repression from the state
11:33government. These are all criminal acts that are being denounced by the Venezuelan authorities,
11:39and they are also denouncing the media's participation in spreading this false information as
11:47part of a campaign to destabilize the nation. Let's continue seeing the images provided by the
11:53Attorney General showing the criminal actions that these sectors are carrying out and that cannot
12:00by any standard be described as peaceful protesters.
12:30We are seeing in these images of these violent sectors of burnt down public buildings.
13:00There we could see a review, completely reviewed of attacks, injured, there we have seen injured,
13:16even with the voices referring kill him, kill him, beat him, in some places of the country.
13:26And so they also killed an official, a military, and you see the sequence in several spots of the
13:38country. And I want to show you in this second video how the criminal recognizes this happened
13:48in the state of Yaracuyo, which previously he was paid a misery in dollars, he committed vandalic acts.
14:18I just burn you, your things, we don't want your things.
14:48My name is Isaac Mauricio, I arrived from Colombia two months ago, and I was hired to commit these
15:14uprisings. They paid me $30 for generating these acts of violence. Unbelievable.
15:34First, the attitude byproduct of alcohol and drugs, of calling himself with the worst words, and there he was boasting out
15:54about robbing, stealing a motorbike, and so we are going to apply him to sentence, to charge him with the crime of terrorism.
16:10There we have the proof, the evidence, and the way in which he did it as he thought here will be impunity.
16:22And some people have misunderstood the good faith of the prosecutor's office in favor of the most vulnerable,
16:33in defense of children, elderly, and they would think that this prosecutor's office is going to happen the same as the Attorney General,
16:48the former Attorney General, that destroyed this entity during 2014 and 2017, in which he ordered a complete inaction, as she said,
17:10the protests were right, but these are not free protests, these are acts of terrorism, because instigation to hate and killing popular leaders,
17:24popular government leaders, these are serious crimes that here they have to fulfill a sentence of 15 years in prison.
17:44Let's see another video, well it didn't come out as we wanted, because Maduro won by fraud, and so this is going to be a chaos,
18:01because we will kill them, we will burn them alive, and I am providing you this data, because we are going to burn them down, and thank you very much.
18:21Really, in some places they would say, laugh, not to cry, but this is a feeling of outrage, because how come they would think they would do that?
18:48We are just inquiring into who are the ones who hired them, because they will be arrested too.
18:59They spoke with the slang of thugs, with people who have been convicted several times, and with the language of those drug addicts, and they are there, later crying.
19:19They kneel down to ask for mercy, please, we will tell everything that happens, even though you will be detained.
19:30In Tashira, violent actions occurred, and let's see, I have no less than 500 videos and pictures about this, but we are making a selection of all those videos, and let's see video number 4.
20:00We are just setting fire for freedom for the future, and this is Rubio.
20:31The criminal said.
20:33In Tigre, they would say, what?
20:48It's something that causes a thirst of justice, but also outrage.
21:03We Venezuelan people feel very treacherous ahead of this.
21:13Where is the digitalized count?
21:17They said there was a fraud, a digitalized counting, and there are the proof, we have the proof, and at the end, we will provide the information about the arrested.
21:37I want to see the international organizations that these are prisoners, thugs, talking the language, the prettiest, the softest things they said, we will kill them.
22:00But then they are arrested, I repeat, crying, asking for mercy, but there's not going to be mercy, but justice, because you could feel sympathy for them, but there has to be justice, because all of the damage they have caused.
22:25And who seeks to attack water and electricity?
22:32These same far-right sectors who were dreaming about not having elections on July 28 due to water shortages and electricity.
22:46Let's see another video.
23:25After having set fire to Hidrocaribe, I could point out that this is a very despicable action of removing water, food, electricity.
23:50They have burned down basic services, and they have replicated the uprisings, and in 2013 happened the same, in which they chanted fraud when President Nicolás Maduro was elected for the first time.
24:13There we could see their methodology, their way of what they wanted to do.
24:23Right now, they have attacked headquarters of government, police, and they tried to attack the prosecutor's office at several states, and the mayorship.
24:46There have been 29 arrested for that crime, and in this case, there are 20 subjects detained, including four minors.
25:00They attacked military officials, causing them several injuries, and they sabotaged the headquarters of Hidrocaribes, triggering several damages in these headquarters, and they will be punished because of that.
25:25They committed terrorist actions against an educated facility, and they derailed a train.
25:52They call themselves a train, and they are like a derailed train.
25:59You have seen those videos, because you have seen the videos in which they said paramilitary groups in the state are the style of criminals.
26:16They are attacking educated facilities, and let's see what happened in Huarico State.
26:26In this town, everything is calm, but you count on us, and I am going to bomb you, police.
26:47We are not mistreating you.
26:50Give me the radio, because I am going to bomb you.
26:55We are in the parish of Macaria, in the scholar group Macaria, which in the early hours of the morning, they were victims of terrorist acts against their humanity.
27:10These brave men that they supported, they were steadfast against the enemy.
27:20Today, more than ever, we are very committed to that process and what it means, homeland.
27:28We must defend the people.
27:30We cannot allow this.
27:33They were victims of serious attacks with several weapons, and they were attacked, and they ended up with the educated facility, the life of the community.
27:51It is necessary to take resounding actions, and we are here, the members of the armed forces, to destroy that group.
28:03An applause to that glorious armed forces who acted in real time against those fascist groups.
28:22The international organizations, they are going to say that this organized crime group, which they are paramilitary assassins,
28:43and they will list them on the political prisoners list, as it happened in Geneva, in the human rights commissions, and the list of 300 political prisoners were all terrorists.
29:02They were charged in coup d'etats, in murders, in operations.
29:11They were all involved in the attacks against military barracks.
29:23Are they too political prisoners?
29:28This case has been replicated because they have not the quality of having the alleged peaceful demonstrators.
29:44They will be arrested, for example, this fat sir who was stained by tomato sauce, and then all of them are laughing among them.
30:08There are people who faked and recorded the bad things they did, and they sent that information to us.
30:22And so they accused the government of violating the human rights, and for example, let's see what has been doing this fat guy.
30:39They killed him. The government that wants repression. National Guard.
30:53And then you see this fat guy, resuscitated alive, alive on the bike.
31:07It's such a shame. It's an insanity of this show.
31:22It's so lame. After insulting and offending the state, they are using this subject, they just go with him on the bike.
31:38It's not even black humor. This is something that is a crime, and we have appointed the Attorney General, the prosecutor, who is going to charge the responsible for this crime.
32:03Which causes terror, and this is nothing to laugh about, and this is not a mockery.
32:14It's like if they killed someone, and they said, well, I was very upset, but this is a serious crime, and you are going to be in jail for having gone against the law.
32:33And this, we are selecting from hundreds of cases, some of them very short. For example, in Miranda State, it was apprehended the subject, Jose Menendez.
32:49They delivered objects to terrorist groups with the aim of hampering the highways, and let's show you this video and the photo of the detainee.
33:19Here we can see the arrested.
33:49Who delivered the objects. This didn't happen since the uprisings of 2014.
33:59The prosecutor's office let them release, because the prosecutor's office was part of the coup d'etat attempt of these criminals who wanted to assault office through a call, through this plan.
34:21Well, it is arrested this subject, and I want to mention to another case, a recent case, case number two in Guaira, and there were arrested the criminals Jefferson Patron and Romero, who were leaders of a far-right group through videos on social media.
34:45They managed the population with committing violent and destabilizing acts, causing terror, and let's see the video and the photo regarding this incident in Guaira.
35:05We are willing to defend the ballots of Maria Corina and Mundo, who were the winners, and we don't agree with them.
35:22It's unbelievable, really, it's unbelievable. A group of paramilitary groups saying that they are defending of what? Let's look at those photos.
35:37Without any disguise, I am not surprised, but they have to go under a shrink study, and after being arrested, why do they kneel down asking for mercy?
36:06I have my mother at home, I have a son, but you are threatening with killing. The others have families too, and on this, how can we describe them?
36:23These women, this pair of demons, they were on the rise with guns, but look, what could they say? That these two, don't be surprised, that the international organizations, quotation marks of protecting human rights,
36:50that these were electoral witnesses, they were international observers, they were taking care of the polling stations in this state, they were international observers of the far right, and they were taken away.
37:10Don't be surprised, I have seen several things, because we have already known how the arrested alias Alzemi has been defended by these factions.
37:25We are talking about where are his human rights, and he was used for the dirty campaign against Venezuela.
37:39Don't be surprised that these criminals appeared on those lists, of those alleged political persecuted prisoners, and that these tiny groups, these tiny commands, are criminal, because all of them have confessed that they belong to them, to these groups.
38:07I want to show another case in Lara, they have been arrested Jose Sanchez, Luis Javier, and three teenagers, who on July 29th, as part of a criminal and far right group, they have attacked facilities of terminal institutions.
38:36Terminal in Caracas, what has to do a terminal that provides services, public services, why do you do that? To cause fear and anxiety, to generate hate,
38:55These are the criminals who are self-proclaimed members of the tiny commands, and afterwards they appeared in these crimes. These people have been detained, and I want to show you the video and the photos.
39:25And the criminals say that they have been stealing a truck,
39:55From that facility.
39:59It's really, it's really despicable.
40:21These subjects not only attacked the installations, but they stole a truck, a big truck, and then they burned it down.
40:40These are 10 arrested people, let's see the picture. They are arrested and crying with their heads down.
40:57Now let's see, when we are in Geneva next week, I want to be surprised that in this discrimination group, that it's going to be a test regarding Venezuela, don't be surprised when it is the case of the Venezuelan case in this session that is coming next week,
41:22That they said that Venezuela is discriminating, is biased towards these people, and they show us a list.
41:35Let's not be surprised about this, because it has been the usual behavior from 2019 to date.
41:49I want to show you another case in Lara. It was incarcerated the criminal Israel Crespo and a teenager who participated in an attack of the headquarters of the government party.
42:05And they destroyed the assets, and they set fire to the headquarters, destroying that headquarters completely.
42:17And the attackers pushed a person from the seventh floor to down.
42:37They are being ordered by them. The accountable of chanting fraud are the intellectual authors of these crimes.
42:52It is a double standard speech. On one side, they placed a person who was rather, they must have hospitalized him or provided him intensive care, because he is suffering from serious illnesses.
43:18And his mobility is almost none. But for these things, there is no innocent face.
43:30Because the plan is, they have a two-fold plan, and speaking hogwatch things.
43:47Where is your evidence? Where is the automated system of data that leads you to say the things? But they don't have it. But that was the excuse of what we have been seeing today and yesterday.
44:09And justice is acting. And people are being seen in these faces. Let's see the video and the photo of another case.
44:24How come the ones who committed these crimes, they launched an innocent person, an innocent citizen,
44:47they launched him from the third floor to the street. But the culprits are already arrested. See how this victim is left in this world upside down.
45:11And if you allow me the camera, please, if you get closer to the picture, these two, don't be surprised.
45:21These two arrested, don't be surprised that these two arrested that are on the right appear on the list of the NGOs and in the human rights committees as political prisoners and persecuted.
45:51Persecuted political prisoners. And the injured that they almost killed appeared as the attacker. That's the usual methodology they use.
46:07This is a new face of the hybrid war. But this face is a mixture of the previous ones. They are using social media, fake news, the psychological war from overseas.
46:21They are using spokespersons who declare to generate hate against authorities of the state and justified these abuses, these killings.
46:36And one of the extraordinary sessions of the head of state in the Council of Security of the Nation was to provide safeguarding to the leaders of Venezuela.
46:52They are protected by the state of Venezuela. Those who have defended in their sectors, the people. So the Venezuelan state paid them back, providing them protection.
47:08Because we cannot allow that these criminals in hooks, they are just afterwards, they are crying and kneeling down as like praying, just asking for pardon.
47:28Oh, they pay me $20 and they hire me. So it is not worth that kind of excuses when they have been presented like that. I want to give a preliminary balance account of the actions that I have been mentioning.
47:51We have so far 1,062 detainees. And if some of them, for the previous investigation, we could determine that being in the places they haven't participated, here we have justice and here we have a fair trial, they will be released.
48:16But if they are found guilty, they will be sentenced for many years. And it is surprising the formative blackout of what's been happening with the police officials that have.
48:36We have 67 officials injured and one assassinated. The case that I commented yesterday in the Aragua state, unfortunately. But yesterday I have been talking about 40 injured and the figure rises up to 67 injured by these criminals.
49:01So concluding, it was necessary, important to show you these advances, the videos, the before and after, the surprises, the ones who simulate doing things and ended up being arrested and brought to justice.
49:21For them to not say that these criminals are political prisoners because they belong to the far right.
49:33These are people detained on the hour of the crime by committing acts of violence, burning people down, and this is causing the unanimous rejection of the Venezuelan population.
49:56Because Venezuela before Monday, it was in normality without any incident to regret.
50:11It has been occurring spots to generate spots of violence, to generate a wave of violence, and they want to replicate the Caracas case.
50:29But the people is aware and the people knows that these criminals are assassins, are hitmen who are trying to provide bloodshed.
50:46But the acting of the prosecutor's office has been key to maintain peace and coexistence of citizens.
50:53I congratulate our officials and applause to all of them who haven't let aside the plan that we have given them last week.
51:05Let's be on guard, and there's an international correspondent, a question.
51:13Good afternoon. Roberto Perez, TelevisiĂłn Correspondent, has a question.
51:21Good afternoon, prosecutor.
51:25You have identified and arrested many of the material authors of these vandalic acts.
51:32I wonder what happens with the intellectual authors that are behind these acts of destabilization.
51:40The prosecutor's office will open any process of investigation against the intellectual authors?
51:47Well, on due time, your question, you come from El Salvador? Yes, I am here for eight months.
51:58I appreciate your presence and your colleagues in these presidential elections which have been exemplary.
52:06And at the same time, I want to say that this prosecutor's office has opened files underway against several intellectual authors.
52:21And based on the evidence in each of the cases, we don't disregard the new arrests that have to do with these intellectual authors.
52:36Thank you very much.
52:41We will listen to a live statement from the Attorney General of Venezuela, Attorney William Zapa,
52:45as he continues to provide evidence of the violence instigated by the far-right groups that are trying to destabilize the country.
52:52Stay tuned with Televisión Inglés for more.