Bolivia’s authorities has accused former president Evo Morales of staging an try on his personal life, saying that the photographs fired at his automobile on Sunday got here after he tried to run a police checkpoint.
“Mr Morales, no person believes the theater you have got staged,” the inside minister, Eduardo del Castillo, instructed a information convention.
He added that Morales, who claims the federal government tried to kill him, would “need to reply … for the crime of tried homicide” of a police officer.
Del Castillo claimed the automobile wherein Morales was touring did not cease at a checkpoint arrange by police to fight drug trafficking in central Chapare province, one of many nation’s largest producers of coca, the uncooked materials for cocaine.
He stated that the police motioned for the car to decelerate and cease however that the driving force as a substitute accelerated, and that “photographs had been fired from a car”.
He stated that an officer was run over however survived, earlier than a police patrol gave chase to Morales’s automobile and fired on it.
Morales, who’s engaged in a weeks-long standoff together with his former ally turned rival President Luís Arce, stated on Sunday his automobile was riddled with bullets by assailants with their faces coated whereas he was touring to a radio station within the metropolis of Cochabamba.
He stated his driver was wounded however he was unhurt.
The radio station launched a video that it stated was of the pickup truck wherein Morales was touring. It exhibits three bullet holes on the windshield and the driving force with blood on his head.
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