A popular Venezuelan YouTuber who was arrested on suspicion of terrorism, Oscar Alejandro, has been released.
According to AFP, the Venezuela government disclosed this on Monday.
Police arrested the US-based video creator — whose full name is Oscar Alejandro Perez Martinez but goes by Oscar Alejandro — at the Caracas airport on Sunday as he was about to travel to Canaima, the national park that is home to Angel Falls, the world’s tallest waterfall.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab said on X, that he was, however, released on condition he make himself available to prosecutors and the courts if they summon him.
The family of Oscar Alejandro said he had been accused of “activities related to terrorism.”
Saab explained that the social media influencer was arrested over a video he published online which, the attorney general said, shows a “financial building” and “urges that it be blown up with explosives.”
He was referring to a video in which Alejandro showed part of a building housing computer servers that are used by Venezuela’s banks.
Narrating the video, he says, “Get a load of this: If a bomb were thrown at this building, the whole national banking system would collapse.”
Oscar Alejandro has nearly two million subscribers on YouTube and more than 580,000 followers on Instagram. His videos document his visits to tourist sites around the world and his interactions with locals. He has visited 28 countries.
After his release Perez Martinez said he will explain on his social media feeds what happened in this case.
