Asier Guridi Zaloña, a Basque refugee in Venezuela who has been in protest for 51 days and demands that Saime hand over his identity card, he denounced having been attacked by a group called “resistance and rebellion”
Asier Guridi Zalonaa Basque refugee in Venezuela who has been protesting for 51 years and has demanded that Saime hand over his identity card, denounced having been attacked by a group called “resistance and rebellion”, whose leader is Jorge Navas.
The Basque citizen accused the group of not having a revolutionary conscience and of being misinformed. He said that the attack was on Thursday, January 5.
“The collective was located between the José María Vargas de Pajaritos building and the National Assembly building. Apart from the fact that this person or group showed their absolute ignorance of my case, a clear victim of misinformation, saying that I have been offered an identity card and according to, I have rejected it, “said Asier Guridi Zaloña.
51 days of fighting. Venezuelan legislation on refugees is guaranteeing; if SAIME complied with the Law, any vulnerable person with refugee status by the National Refugee Commission would be immediately identified and documented
SAIME FULFILLS THE REFUGEE LAW! pic.twitter.com/fPTkTeR7dq
— Asier Guridi Zaloña (@Borrokaz) January 5, 2023
In this sense, he narrated that the attacker dressed in black flannel is usually located near the press kiosk in the place: «It seems that he does not know my status as a revolutionary refugee and what this implies. This group has knocked me to the ground, it has damaged the posters.
Likewise, the Basque refugee pointed out that, at 9 in the morning, the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) at the corner of San Francisco ordered him to go further down towards the Pajaritos area, but he stood where La Ceiba is.
He recounted that a senior security official at the administrative building of the National Assembly (AN) did not allow him to protest on the block of Pajaritos. “It was there that the senior security officer of the National Assembly took my cell phone, they urged the collective to act as a shock force against me.”
He added that it took about 15 minutes for a security officer from the AN itself to arrive and order the delivery of his cell phone.
“I let it be known that they are not going to stop me and that I will continue to demand compliance with the rule of law in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” said Basque refugee Asier Guridi Zaloña.
He demands to comply with the order of the National Commission for Refugees (Conare) that Saime process the ID. “I think the most revolutionary act that I can do now is to ensure that Saime does not ignore the Refugee Law and does not leave refugees recognized by Conare undocumented,” he said.
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