Almost a week after the capture in Venezuela of gendarme Nahuel Gallo, the president JavierMiley met this Thursday with the detainee’s family. The meeting took place in Tucumanwhere the president had been summoned by the Federalism and Freedom Foundation to receive the Juan Bautista Alberdi award.
The meeting was confirmed on his social networks by the governor of Catamarca, Raul JaliI, one of those attending the same call to which the head of the national Executive was invited. According to the provincial leader, “the President expressed his support at this distressing time and stressed that all the diplomatic efforts and legal to demand the release of Nahuel, who is detained in Venezuela.”
“We will continue managing and working with all national organizations so that Nahuel is reunited with his family. With Nahuel’s mother, Griselda Heredia, and his two brothers, Kevin and Daiana, we were able to talk at this meeting and guarantee them that we are going to collaborate in everything necessary to get through this difficult moment,” the Catamarca leader expressed in his X account. one of the Peronist allies of the Government.
Gallo’s arrest was known on Friday, the day the Government confirmed that the agent had been arrested by forces of the Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro. In this context, the Ministry of Security asked the Foreign Ministry for collaboration to file a complaint in Venezuela about the situation.
As LA NACION told, He Non-commissioned officer Nahuel Agustín GalloA native of the province of Catamarca and 33 years old, he was in Colombia as part of a mission from the force and had traveled to Caracas to visit a relative of his partner. Under these circumstances, he was detained by the Venezuelan Security Forces, at a time when he was trying to enter that country.
On Sunday, two days after the case came to light, Minister Patricia Bullrich confirmed that the member of the federal force He is “in an Intelligence base” in Táchira. “We know where it is. They summoned the bride’s mother, but due to a security issue she did not come closer,” the head of the Ministry of Security highlighted that day.
The minister added that the Gendarmerie filed a criminal complaint for the kidnapping of the first corporal. “Since Tuesday, December 10, when the Force became aware of the situation of the non-commissioned officer in Venezuela, family members were immediately contacted and all information was submitted to the ministerial authorities,” the GNA indicated in a statement released on Sunday the 15th.
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