Three people accused of involvement in an explosive drone attack at an event in 2018 attended by Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro were sentenced to 30 years in prison, the maximum sentence in the country, relatives of those convicted said on Friday (9). ).
María Delgado Tabosky, retired Major Juan Carlos Marrufo and retired Colonel Juan Francisco Rodríguez were convicted on charges of “terrorism, treason and criminal association” at a hearing that began on Thursday night and lasted until the early hours of Friday. fair, told AFP a family member who asked not to be named.
María Delgado Tabosky, 48, is a Spanish-Venezuelan citizen and the sister of Osman Delgado Tabosky, who lives in the United States and is accused by the Maduro regime of having financed the attack.
The two drones exploded near a stage where the dictator was participating in an act with military personnel on August 4, 2018, in Caracas. Maduro was unharmed. Marrufo, 52, who has dual Venezuelan and Italian nationality, is the husband of Maria Tabosky.
“They were never related to the events. They were simply detained because they were related to a presumably connected person,” the source said.
A UN Human Rights Council group said the 2019 arrests of Delgado Tabosky and Marrufo were “arbitrary”. Both have been detained for three years and eight months at the Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) in Caracas.
Their relatives ask for house arrest for health reasons and have been demanding the governments of Spain and Italy to intercede for the couple, without success.
Another 17 defendants in the case, including former opposition deputy Juan Requesens, were sentenced last August to between five and 30 years in prison.
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