(CNN Spanish) – The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, reported this Friday in the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Congress of Deputies that he received in the morning a verbal notification from Venezuela allowing Spain to exercise “consular protection” to the two compatriots. detained in previous weeks for allegedly being part of a plot to kill President Nicolás Maduro and other prominent figures in his Government.
“I have discussed this matter directly with the Venezuelan Foreign Minister (Yvan Gil),” Albares noted. “I have made it clear to him that they are unjustly detained, that I do not give any credibility to the charges against them that, of course, have no link with any Spanish public institution, much less with the CNI (National Intelligence Center) and that they have “They must be released as soon as possible.”
Since his arrest became known, announced by Diosdado Cabello at the beginning of September, the Spanish Foreign Ministry has been working to achieve access to the detained citizens, who are residents of Bilbao, in the north of Spain.
To date, the exact charges against the detainees are unknown, given that the chancellor has avoided commenting on them when asked about them in interviews conducted in previous days.
In public statements made in September, the Minister of the Interior and Justice of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, pointed out the two Spaniards for allegedly carrying out espionage work within the framework of a conspiratorial plan that would have had the objective of destabilizing the Maduro Government. and even commit an assassination.
Albares assured that now that they have achieved this access they will “provide them with all the assistance they can so that they can return to their homes, in Bilbao, where they had to be as soon as possible.”
