Venezuela’s Maduro Says Armed Group “Started A Coup”, Used Helicopter To Drop Grenades

Wednesday, June 28, 2017
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 28, 2017

In an incident that is oddly reminiscent to the “failed coup” in Turkey from last June, late on Tuesday a rogue Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and the interior ministry on Tuesday, in what President Nicolas Maduro called an attack by “terrorists seeking a coup” and which major news agencies said was an escalation of the OPEC nation’s political crisis, although to some local Venezuelans this was a staged attempt to justify ongoing repression at Venezuela’s National Assembly.

According to Reuters, the helicopter fired 15 shots at the Interior Ministry, where dozens of people were gathered at a social event, after dropping four grenades on the Supreme court during a meeting of judges, although there were no reports of injuries. Opponents to Maduro view the symbolic Interior Ministry as a bastion of repression and also hate the Supreme Court for its string of rulings bolstering the president’s power and undermining the opposition-controlled legislature.

President Nicolas Maduro, speaking on state television after the incident, said people flying a helicopter conducted an “armed terrorist attack against the country’s institutions” and added that “this is the kind of armed escalation I have been denouncing.”

Maduro said one of the helicopter pilots served as pilot for former Interior Minister Migue Rodriguez Torres, a critic of Maduro, and said that an air defense plan was immediately activated while calling on the pPblic Prosecutor’s office to take action against “terrorist attack.”

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