Spanish pilots ask airline to avoid Venezuela
Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela - Spain's airline pilots union has asked for Spanish airline Air Europa to stop flying to Venezuela after one of its crews was attacked at gunpoint in Caracas.
The Sepla union said Monday that two pilots and eight more crew members of a flight from Madrid were assaulted on Saturday while going from the airport to their hotel in the Venezuelan capital.
The crew told the union that their van was surrounded by men on three motorbikes who later fled after an exchange of gunfire with a person the crew believed to be a plainclothes police officer. None of the crew members was injured.
Read more at: https://www.local10.com/news/venezuela/spanish-pilots-ask-airline-to-avoid-venezuela
There are a lot of stories in the current Venezuelan crisis where one hears about the "gangs on motorcycles", some articles say some of these people are connected to the Maduro regime in keeping order.
