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 nan United States aft nan families of 5 Venezuelan men revenge a civilian suit accusing him of overseeing a Venezuelan constabulary portion responsible for extrajudicial killings and torture during his presidency.

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

The suit opens a 2nd ineligible beforehand for Maduro successful nan United States, wherever he is already awaiting proceedings connected federal supplier trafficking and weapons charges. The title says venue is due successful nan U.S. District Court for nan Eastern District of New York because Maduro is presently detained astatine nan Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn.

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Mark Donnelly, lawyer for nan 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 nan U.S. pinch cocaine, astatine nan Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Court House successful New York City, U.S., March 26, 2026 successful this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg)

According to nan complaint, FAES officers routinely entered homes earlier dawn wearing achromatic clothing and look coverings, separated young men from their families, forced galore to their knees, executed them and past staged crime scenes to make it look nan 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 nan alleged killings.

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

Attorneys representing nan 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 pinch 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 nan U.S. pinch cocaine, astatine nan 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 typical tactical portion wrong Venezuela's National Bolivarian Police and later publically defended nan unit contempt disapproval from the United Nations and different quality authorities organizations. It cites reports from nan United Nations, Human Rights Watch and nan U.S. State Department documenting allegations of wide quality authorities abuses by nan unit.

The families reason they person been incapable to get justness successful Venezuela because prosecutors either refused to prosecute investigations aliases grounded to clasp elder officials accountable, leaving them without an effective 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 complete alleged torture and extrajudicial killings committed nether nan authority of a overseas government.

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