The attorney-General of Venezuela was forbidden to leave the country

The Supreme court of Venezuela has banned the Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega to leave the country and froze its assets, ahead of a pre-trial hearing scheduled for 4 July. The query that was requested by ally of President Nicolas Maduro, will be used to determine whether Ortega had made "a serious error at the post".

If it has found enough evidence Ortega can be brought to justice. This is the latest twist in a political mess that has seized the country, and follows the audacious attack on the Supreme court in Caracas on Wednesday when a police helicopter was released grenades. The helicopter was found in a rural part of the country, but according to authorities, the suspect, Oscar Perez still on the run.

Ortega recently accused the government of Maduro in "state terrorism", depriving citizens of the right to protest. "We continue to witness the rupture of the constitutional order. The Constitution continues to be violated, and institutions are being dismantled," said she. The legislator Pedro Carreno, who requested a preliminary hearing, told reporters that, in his opinion, Ortega, not in his mind. "Obviously, this lady not in your mind, it is clear that this lady is not normal," said carreö?o.

The helicopter involved in the attack on the Supreme court building, was supposedly piloted by Oscar Perez, an officer of the investigative police force of the country. Before the attack the man, who identified himself as Perez appeared in the video stating that there is an operation to seize democracy from the "criminal government of Venezuela". Peres said that he was speaking on behalf of the coalition military, police and civilian officials.

As stated by officials, the attackers shot from firearms and threw grenades into the courthouse and the foreign Ministry in Caracas on Tuesday. No one was hurt, but the attack was a sharp escalation of the monthly crisis that engulfed the regime of President Maduro, who called the attack a coup attempt.

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