NEW YORK "” Venezuela's foreign minister said he was illegally detained for 90 minutes at a New York airport by police, accusing them of treating him abusively and attempting to frisk and handcuff him.
U.S.
State Department officials called Saturday's incident regrettable and said they had apologized to Venezuelan Foreign Minister
Nicolas Maduro. But he said that was not enough.
"We were detained during an hour and a half, threatened by police with being beaten," Maduro told reporters at Venezuela's mission to the
U.N. "We hold the U.S. government responsible."
Maduro said the authorities at
John F. Kennedy International Airport at one point ordered him and other members of his delegation to spread their arms and legs and be frisked, but they forcefully refused.
"They tried to put on some handcuffs," he said, describing it as a threat. "They would have had to take us out of that airport dead if they tried to touch us."
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Anything to draw attention and inflate themselves as standing up to the devil right?[:'(][&:]Morons indeed...
Venez. Diplomat detained at airport!
