Bolivia accuses ex-president Morales of ‘staged’ assassination attempt
Bolivia’s government claimed the former leader’s convoy had fired on special anti-narcotics police who were carrying out a patrol
“Mr Morales, nobody believes the theatre you have staged,” Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo told a news conference.
He added that Morales, who claims the government tried to kill him, would “have to answer … for the crime of attempted murder” of a police officer.
Del Castillo claimed the car in which Morales was travelling failed to stop at a checkpoint set up by police to combat drug trafficking in central Chapare province, one of the country’s biggest producers of coca, the raw material for cocaine.
He said the police motioned for the vehicle to slow down and stop but that the driver instead accelerated, and that “shots were fired from a vehicle”.
