The attack on the fort Paramacaywhose code name was Operation David, was a military action carried out in the early hours of Sunday, August 6, 2017. The assailants said that it was a “civic and military action to restore constitutional order” and to “save the country from total destruction, to stop the murders” of young people and family members.
The NGOs Foro Pena y Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón reported that those accused of attacking the Paramacay fort in 2017, located in the state of Carabobo, were sentenced to 30 years in prison early this Friday, December 19.
The director of Foro Penal, Alfredo Romero, said in x that the conviction was for “all the accused in the Paramacay case”, including those who were under precautionary measures.
30 years is the maximum sentence in the country’s legal system. The relatives of those convicted told Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón that “the ruling occurred in the middle of a process that disregarded the rules of due process in all its parts.”
This organization detailed that a total of 23 people were convicted in the Paramacay case and that 17 of these had been detained for more than eight years and another six remained under precautionary measures.
Justice, Encounter and Forgiveness, this ruling “is not an isolated event, but is part of a systematic pattern where the legal form remains only as a facade.”
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“By repeatedly violating due process, the basic social pact that protects the citizen against the power of the State is broken, and a dangerous precedent is set in which defenselessness is institutionalized,” denounced this NGO on its x account.
The attack on the fort Paramacaywhose code name was Operation David, was a military action carried out in the early hours of Sunday, August 6, 2017. That day, a group of soldiers stole weapons from Brigade 41 and fled with other accomplices. Two of them were murdered by soldiers loyal to the ideology of Nicolás Maduro.
Captain Juan Caguaripano, currently detained, said he declared himself “in rebellion” against what he described as “the murderous tyranny of Nicolás Maduro,” although he specified that it was not a “coup d’état.”
Caguaripano then explained that this was a “civic and military action to restore constitutional order” and to “save the country from total destruction, to stop the murders” of young people and family members.
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