“I was captured,” Maduro said (in Spanish) before being cut off by the judge. Asked later for his plea to the charges, he stated: “I’m innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the president of my country.”
‘The stakes were made clear from the outset as Maduro, who took copious notes throughout the proceedings and wished a Happy New Year to reporters in court, repeatedly pressed his case that he had been unlawfully abducted.’ AP news
“I am here kidnapped,” Maduro said. “I was captured at my home in Caracas.”