Families sue Maduro in US, accuse ex-president of directing police unit tied to extrajudicial killings

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is facing a caller ineligible situation successful the United States aft the families of 5 Venezuelan men filed a civilian suit accusing him of overseeing a Venezuelan constabulary portion liable for extrajudicial killings and torture during his presidency.

The ailment alleges Maduro created Venezuela's Special Action Forces, known arsenic FAES, and exercised bid implicit the portion arsenic it allegedly carried retired a run of extrajudicial killings betwixt 2017 and 2021. The families are seeking compensatory and punitive damages nether the Torture Victim Protection Act.

The suit opens a 2nd ineligible beforehand for Maduro successful the United States, wherever helium is already awaiting proceedings connected national cause trafficking and weapons charges. The ailment says venue is due successful the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York due to the fact that Maduro is presently detained astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn.

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Mark Donnelly, lawyer for the woman of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Cilia Flores, attends a proceeding successful a narco-terrorism lawsuit accusing Maduro of moving a cartel of Venezuelan officials that flooded the U.S. with cocaine, astatine the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Court House successful New York City, U.S., March 26, 2026 successful this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg)

According to the complaint, FAES officers routinely entered homes earlier dawn wearing achromatic covering and look coverings, separated young men from their families, forced galore to their knees, executed them and past staged transgression scenes to marque it look the victims had "resisted authority." Plaintiffs besides allege officers looted homes, planted weapons and transported victims to hospitals aft they had already died successful an effort to conceal the alleged killings.

The suit details 5 incidents betwixt 2017 and 2021 involving six victims and besides accuses FAES officers of torturing 3 relatives by beating, detaining oregon forcing them to witnesser the killings earlier they were denied justness done Venezuela's judicial system.

Attorneys representing the plaintiffs, Maduro's lawyer Barry Pollack and Amnesty International did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

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A courtroom sketch shows ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with his wife, Cilia Flores, Flores' lawyer, Mark Donnelly, and Maduro's lawyer, Barry Pollack, arsenic they be a proceeding successful a narco-terrorism lawsuit accusing him of moving a cartel of Venezuelan officials that flooded the U.S. with cocaine, astatine the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Court House successful New York City, U.S., March 26, 2026. (Jane Rosenberg)

The suit alleges Maduro established FAES successful 2017 arsenic a peculiar tactical portion wrong Venezuela's National Bolivarian Police and aboriginal publically defended the unit contempt disapproval from the United Nations and different quality rights organizations. It cites reports from the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and the U.S. State Department documenting allegations of wide quality rights abuses by the unit.

The families reason they person been incapable to get justness successful Venezuela due to the fact that prosecutors either refused to prosecute investigations oregon failed to clasp elder officials accountable, leaving them without an effectual ineligible remedy successful their location country.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is arrested. (Fox Nation)

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The Torture Victim Protection Act allows civilian claims successful U.S. courts implicit alleged torture and extrajudicial killings committed nether the authorization of a overseas government.

Maduro served arsenic Venezuela's president from 2013 until 2026, according to the complaint. He has pleaded not blameworthy successful his transgression lawsuit and has antecedently described himself arsenic a "prisoner of war."