Most Venezuelans
first learned of several deaths in a police station in Valencia, in the early
hours of Wednesday 29, via declarations
of the director of a local NGO Una
Ventana a la Libertad.
So far, several media outlets are reporting 68
deaths in a confusing
incident in which prisoners apparently first shot a police officer on the leg
and then tried to escape by putting their mattresses on fire. General
prosecutor Tarek William Saab has confirmed the news and has said his office
will launch an investigation immediately. The news however, is still missing from
the Agencia
Venezolana de Noticias front webpage.
Aporrea webpage commentator
Jesús Silva R. (@Jesus_Silva_R) has a theory of what could have happened
yesterday:
“I am asking for a
criminal investigation about all that could have happened in PoliCarabobo, and
that all possible criminal scripts be examined, including that agents of the
Venezuelan terrorist opposition could have provoked a presumed violent event in
the said placed. This is the directions my suspicions are taking me as a
criminalistic expert and a lawyer of the common people.”
Hours before
publishing his article in Aporrea, Silva tweeted: “What is being said about
PoliCarabobo is FALSE. NO deaths. NO one wounded. NO fire. NO mutiny. Only
opposition war and LIES via Twitter.”