Venezuela’s at­tor­ney gen­er­al Tarek William Saab says the he is hold­ing the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment re­spon­si­ble for the safe­ty of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro and First La­dy Cil­ia Flo­res, fol­low­ing re­ports of a US mil­i­tary strike and claims Maduro was cap­tured and flown out of the coun­try.

Speak­ing on Venezue­lan state me­dia ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing, Saab said Wash­ing­ton would be di­rect­ly to blame for “any cir­cum­stances” af­fect­ing the pres­i­dent, de­scrib­ing the sit­u­a­tion as a kid­nap­ping.

“Not on­ly the faith of life of our Com­man­der-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Head of State Nicolás Maduro Mo­ro, and of his wife, our sis­ter and first fight­er, Cil­ia Flo­res, but apart from that faith of life, I di­rect­ly blame the gov­ern­ment of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca for any cir­cum­stances that may oc­cur to our Pres­i­dent and leader of the Bo­li­var­i­an Rev­o­lu­tion.”