Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has said they will exercise “diplomatic and consular protection” but would not reveal the charges against them.
Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, announced that the government of Venezuela has, of course, already confirmed the identities and charges of the two Bilbao citizens detained in that country. espionage as part of a plot to destabilize the government of Nicolás Maduro.
In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, the head of Spanish diplomacy explained that he had received official confirmation of the arrest and indictment of the two Spanish citizens at the end of last week, as he had previously demanded from his Venezuelan counterpart, Yván Gil.
From this moment on, as Albares himself announced, “the diplomatic and consular protection” by José María Basoa Valdovinos and Andrés Martínez Adasme, “so that these two compatriots wrongfully detained in Venezuela can return to where they were always meant to be: with their families.”
When asked what charges they have, the Foreign Minister has evaded, arguing that his ministry “must work calmly” and that the prisoners “also right to privacyOf course, he has reiterated that Basque citizens have “nothing to do” with “any Spanish public authority, let alone the CNI.”
In this sense, when he heard the news, he conveyed it to the families of the two Spaniards, as well as to the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales.
Source: EITB
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