This Friday afternoon finally arrived in Venezuela 12 of the crew of the Emtrasur plane, after the Argentine justice allowed their departure from that country this Tuesday, September 13, after being held for more than three months in that nation.
The 12 crew members were received by the Minister for Transportation, Ramón Velazquez Araguayán.
On their return trip to the country, the 12 crew members first made a stopover at bolivia where, according to journalist Madelein García from Telesur, they embarked at night.
There are still seven crew members in Argentina, including four Iranians and three Venezuelans.
On the other hand, the Boeing 747-300 aircraft has also been held at the Ezeiza International Airport since June 8.
“They called us spies and held us unjustly for three months,” said José Miguel Rodríguez Martínez, flight attendant.
Cut allows exit
The Federal Court of Appeals of La Plata authorized this Tuesday, September 13, the exit from Argentina to 12 of the 19 crew members traveling on the emtrasur planekidnapped in Ezeiza for almost three months.
In accordance with local mediathe document was signed by Judge Federico Villena, from Lomas de Zamora, on August 1 and was appealed and elevated to La Plata.
Likewise, it has the signature of judges Carlos A. Vallefín and Roberto Lemos Arias, who ordered Judge Villenas, who is in charge of the case, to speed up and conclude “all the pending proceedings, the definition of the procedural situation and of restrictions imposed on people and things.
With this decision, seven crew members of the plane would remain in the country.
Among the citizens who do not have the right to leave the country are the Iranian citizens Gholamreza Ghasemi, Abdolbaset Mohammadi, Mohammad Khosraviaragh and Saeid Vali Zadeh, and the Venezuelans Víctor Pérez Gómez, Mario Arraga Urdaneta and José Garcia Contreras.
Venezuela fought tirelessly
After the lifting of the ban on leaving the country for 12 of the 19 crew members of the Aerocargo del Sur Transport Company (Emtrasur), kidnapped in Argentina, the national government spoke out and said it was satisfied with the decision .
“The Bolivarian Government has fought tirelessly for the release of the Emtrasur plane and crew. We are pleased with the lifting of the measure prohibiting the departure of Argentina issued to 12 members of the crew”, said the Minister of Popular Power for Transport, Ramón Velásquez Araguayán, on the social network Twitter.
Velásquez Araguayán added that they will continue “fighting until the plane is recovered.”
