A helicopter dropped two grenades on Venezuela’s Supreme Court building in a “terror attack” against the Government, President Nicolas Maduro said in a speech.
“I have activated the entire armed forces to defend the peace,” he said in remarks delivered from the Miraflores presidential palace. Maduro said he has put the military on alert to respond to the alleged assault.
“Sooner or later, we are going to capture that helicopter and those that carried out this terror attack,” he declared. He did not say when the alleged attack is supposed to have occurred, and said no one was injured and that one of the grenades failed to detonate.
The beleaguered President said the aircraft was flown by a pilot who worked for his former Interior and Justice minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres, from whom he is now estranged.