Statements made by the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, on the departure of the former presidential candidate of the far-right opposition Edmundo González Urrutia after receiving a safe-conduct allowing him to leave the country. teleSUR
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00:00We go live to Venezuela, Attorney General Terry Williams' sub-offer statements.
00:09Let's listen.
00:10The recent events, binding all of them to the departure from Venezuela to Spain of the
00:23citizen Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, I will say that it's ending the brief season to a time
00:33which has some comedy levels of death, initiated this year 2024, and it's called to the end
00:50the name which will be unfortunate and has the last played this Saturday when the main
01:02character Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia put it into the scene, his departure, in the airport
01:15of Marquetilla in Caracas.
01:18We could say that the last chapter happened there, of the mediocre theatre play that
01:27caused blood, sweat and pain to innocent viewers that had another actress that played a role
01:39of villain, which in the last chapters of the play, with a few audience, because the
01:48audience didn't want to see the last chapters, in the end, no one was there, was seen to
01:58be in a truck without the main character of said play, named in a mischievous way till
02:10the end, would wanted to join her in those last chapters, despite of some viewers were
02:23knowing that he was being threatened by a phone call, this scenes were seen in last
02:31chapters when the one who was playing the role of the villain was threatened the main
02:38character of the mediocre play, taking away the microphone from him when he was trying
02:49to give a speech, because it was two characters playing, a villain character and an old man
03:01playing the main character role, but the villain wouldn't let him speak, would take the microphone
03:08away from him, etc. What we're going to see later on will be burning chapters already played in
03:20an ending role, so this public ministry has to perform a role at the time to receive the
03:34judicial name of Edmundo González Urrutia in this headquarters by myself and my team and the
03:46prosecutor that's taking away the cause initiated to him, and this aspect which is very important
03:54that we already gave details, exact details of what happened, today is up to us with this
04:00communiqué, let's say, to seal one of the most decisive moments of the cause initiated against
04:14this citizen Edmundo González Urrutia, so I proceed then to read the communiqué that says this, and we're
04:24going to distribute it to all representatives of the international and national media which are
04:30present today. The public minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is pronunciated
04:39before the international community,
04:44as respect to the last events occurred with the citizen Edmundo González Urrutia, which was being
04:57requested through apprehension order by the reiterated missing subpoenas by the 58 national
05:13prosecutor to be interviewed. Point one, this public minister has knowledge by first hand of the exact
05:26moment which citizen Edmundo González Urrutia entered to the embassy of the Spain kingdom in Caracas.
05:37Then we went to get the news by the Venezuelan authorities of the request of asylum by him in the frame of the
05:50international laws of the human rights and the diplomatic relations between both states.
06:00Point two, the governments of Spain and Venezuela agreed upon the safe conduct of Edmundo González Urrutia
06:12to abandon the national territory and accepted the asylum conceived by Spain. In consequence, this public
06:25ministry expresses its entire respect to the decisions of the Venezuelan executive to fulfill the right of asylum
06:39guaranteed by the constitution of the republic in the 69th article, managed to surrender the safe conduct
06:54which correspond. Three, once that in the communication to the public ministry received on September 4th,
07:08citizen Edmundo González Urrutia expressed his acknowledge to our authority as general prosecutor of the republic
07:20and the capability that has the institution that we directed in base of the law and constitution.
07:27This public ministry has maintained tight communication established during the last days with the judicial holder
07:41of Mr. González Urrutia, lawyer José Vicente Aron, to the end to get the cause of investigation of this office.
08:00Caracas, September 8th, 2024. Signed, as you can see, by me to this official communique that we are going to proceed to
08:19give to the representatives of the communication media here present. Thank you very much.
08:30We were listening to the statements of Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Zab, the top official
08:35reaffirming the departure of former official candidate Edmundo González from Bolivar and Land, adding that this meant
08:40an end to the recent episode of attempted coups against the democratically elected government.
08:45In this regard, the Attorney General read a statement informing that the public ministry knew from the very beginning
08:49the moment that Edmundo entered the Spanish embassy in Caracas and was also informed the moment of the asylum was requested.
08:56The official added that the public ministry fully respects the decision taken by the Venezuelan executive
09:01to grant a safe conduct in accordance to international laws.
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