Opposition leader Leopoldo López denounced this Saturday that officials from the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) of Venezuela broke into his family’s house in Caracas today, after which the agents took goods and arrested the caretaker of the residence.
“In the morning hours of today, a group of armed men forcibly entered the house of my wife and children in Caracas. A truck entered and left loaded with family goods, after forcing entry and bursting the wall,” the anti-Chavista said on Twitter.
In addition, he continued, the uniformed men, “without any justification, kidnapped Rubén Briceño, the guard who was present.” Until now, he remarked, they do not know the whereabouts of the caretaker.
“The Sebin maintains the illegal occupation of the property,” he added.
López leads the Voluntad Popular (VP) party from Spain, where he arrived in October 2020 after leaving Venezuela fleeing a sentence of almost 14 years in prison that was handed down in 2015 for the violence unleashed in anti-government protests in 2014.
VP sources assured EFE this Saturday that the residence that the Sebin agents entered is the same one in which the opponent spent almost two years under house arrest, in eastern Caracas.
The Venezuelan government, headed by Nicolás Maduro, has accused the leader of leading numerous seditious plans, as well as specific crimes such as homicide, although he was never prosecuted for murder.
While imprisoned in a jail outside Caracas, as well as his time under house arrest, López was considered a prisoner of conscience by numerous human rights organizations demanding his release.
