Venezuelan prosecutors will investigate sabotage on the Angostura Bridge

Angostura Bridge on the Orinoco River in Venezuela. Photo: X/ @ElNacionalWeb

June 26, 2024 Time: 1:34 p.m

Citizens responsible for sabotage of public services will be punished with the highest penalty.

On Wednesday, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced that his office would investigate the sabotage of the Angostura Bridge, where unknown criminals tried to collapse public infrastructure by cutting some cables.

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On social media, Saab warned that citizens responsible for sabotaging public services “will be punished with the harshest punishment.”

The Attorney General appointed the Fifth Bolivar Prosecutor’s Office and the 74th National Prosecutor’s Office, which have jurisdiction over organized crime, to investigate and punish those responsible for the acts of sabotage committed on the Angostura Bridge.

Earlier, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez condemned the plans of the far-right opposition to demolish the bridge connecting the states of Anzoategui and Bolivar in order to cause unrest among the population before the presidential elections scheduled for July 28.

“We have detected and discovered a serious plan to demolish the first Angostura Bridge on the Orinoco River,” she said, and also repeated allegations about plans to attack the facilities of the national electricity system.

Rodriguez explained that the saboteurs cut some of the thick and strong wires that hold the bridge together. As a result, the authorities decided to divert cargo transport traffic to the Orinoquia Bridge, which is also located on the Orinoco River.

On social media, citizen journalist Barry Cartaya recalled that the Venezuelan far-right also carried out an attack on the Amuay refinery in 2012, when its candidates were losing the presidential race. “They want to repeat the ‘tragedy of Amuay,’” he said, referring to the attack that left 42 people dead.