Former Venezuelan Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Diaz on Monday rejected Caracas’ allegations of organizing the assassination attempt on President Nicolas Maduro, saying that “if I was really was behind the attack, it would have been successful.”
My fight with the tyranny is led only with the weapon that the law provides me. “You, Jorge Arreaza and your chief Nicolas Maduro, know well that when I plan something, I do it well. If I was behind this plan, the country would be already celebrating its freedom. Stop lying,” the Ortega Diaz wrote on Twitter.
On Sunday, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza accused Ortega Diaz as well as Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, among others, of staging the attack on the president.
The Colombian president rejected the allegations.
The drone attack on Maduro occurred on Saturday, during a military parade in Caracas. A Venezuelan rebel group Flannel Soldiers claimed responsibility saying they had used two drones loaded with explosives.
Maduro was unharmed in the attack, but seven soldiers sustained injuries.
Ortega Diaz was fired on August 5, 2017 after criticizing the election to a controversial Constituent Assembly as well as police brutality during anti-government protests, which have led to many deaths.
The former Prosecutor General then fled to Colombia, where now she is under protection of the nieghboring country’s authorities.
