Argentina will request the help of the French authorities to release the non-commissioned officer detained in Caracas

MADRID Dec. 16 () –

The Minister of Security of Argentina, Patricia Bullrich, has announced that the Government of Javier Milei will ask for France’s collaboration to release the non-commissioned officer of the National Gendarmerie detained “arbitrarily” since last Sunday by the Venezuelan authorities.

The head of Security has declared to the Argentine radio station Radio Miter that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gerardo Werthein, “still does not have anyone’s collaboration.” “He (the Foreign Minister) told me that he was trying to establish some collaboration, that he was going to ask France. We want collaboration, because we, our Embassy, ​​are invaded,” he said.

Bullrich has assured that the Argentine Government needs “a third country (to) help” to release the detained non-commissioned officer who is, as he has declared, in “an Intelligence base in Táchira”, in the northwest of the country, bordering with neighboring Colombia. “The chancellor was looking for that third country that would help us,” he said, while denouncing being “under siege by the Chavista regime.”

Furthermore, the minister has announced that the National Gendarmerie, “with agreement” to her portfolio, has presented “a criminal complaint for this kidnapping of an Argentine citizen, who had not gone as a member of the Gendarmerie but as an Argentine citizen” for a visit. of a personal nature.

These words take place after the Argentine Foreign and Security Ministries denounced this Friday the “arbitrary” and “unjustified” detention of the non-commissioned officer of the Argentine National Gendarmerie, First Corporal Nahuel Agustín Gallo, by the Venezuelan authorities, and demanded “categorically and immediately” his release.

In addition, the Venezuelan authorities have also detained a driver from the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, where six opponents of the Maduro regime have been asylum since the end of March.

The rupture of diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Argentina after accusations from Buenos Aires of electoral fraud in the last presidential elections led to Brazil intervening to take charge of the Argentine consular representation in Venezuelan territory.