Gonzalo Lira was detained at the border, a source has confirmed to RT
Chilean-American reporter Gonzalo Lira, who claimed he would attempt to flee Ukraine after being subjected to physical abuse and extortion in custody, has gone missing, a source has confirmed to RT.
Lira, a vocal critic of the Ukrainian government, resurfaced this week, months after being arrested by the nation’s security service, the SBU. In a series of posts on Twitter and YouTube, he stated his intention to cross the border into Hungary and apply for political asylum.
In a series of tweets yesterday he claimed he had been kept incommunicado in pre-trial detention since early May. He also claimed he had been deprived of sleep, beaten and tortured by other inmates, on instructions from prison authorities.
Lira apparently never made it across the border. Mark Sleboda, a political analyst and frequent guest on RT, confirmed to the channel that Lira was stopped by Ukrainian border guards and has not been heard from since.
Lira had previously claimed that he had been released on bail after months in detention and ordered not to leave the city of Kharkov. However he added that he had his passport and was not wearing an electronic shackle, contrary to the terms of his release.
“Maybe I’m being set up by them so they can justify putting me away in a labor camp – so no one will ever know about their sordid extortion scheme,” he said. “I simply don’t know.”
In the event that he would cross the border in to Hungary, Lira expected Ukraine to issue an international arrest warrant for him for skipping bail. He added that he hoped Hungary would be willing to defy Kiev and not hand him over, unlike other EU nations.
“If you don’t hear from me in the next 12 hours—whelp! I’m on my way to a labor camp!” he concluded. There have been no further updates on his social media since.
Lira has been accused by Ukraine of “publicly justifying” the Russian military operation and “disseminating fakes [false stories] about the war in Ukraine”. He claims the charges were bogus and that he did nothing but explain his opinions about Kiev’s policies and report what was happening in the country.
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OK……………..lots of drama in this “escape” to freedom.
Im starting to think Lira is full of shit.
Either way, shit for brains.
How can anyone so aware of what is going on run his mouth like that?
He could have a martyr wish.
Who would want to live in this world the way it is going, especially with a kid in Ukraine.
A martyr wish or just another dope who is addicted to his phone and social media postings.
I was on a weekly zoom call where he was a regular participant. You can’t shut the guy up. He would dominate the call with his viewpoint.
You just have to catch him while he lights another cigarette.
But he has chronic lung problems? Not the sharpest tack in the drawer, now is he?
Heart. Maybe lungs too, but he stated heart issues.
As for sharpest, maybe he has reason?
I am old enough that everything is bonus round now. I eat, drink, smoke whatever I like with little regard for the future, as I know I don’t have much of one either way.
Health freaks drop dead young all the time and the oldest people I know/knew are/were on the red meat, potatoes and scotch diet for the most part.
Agreed. What kind of idiot, who alleges torture in jail, who somehow is released (he doesn’t say how or why) runs his mouth dissing them again on social media, gets disappeared again. Who’d a thunk it??
Something smells in Denmark on this one.
They’re playing us like a two dollar fiddle..
It’s all fake and very gay.
LOL, how come nobody talks about the Prigozhin “coup” anymore?
Or China balloons,
Or that exploding RV at the Telecom building in Tennessee.
Or the train spill/fire in Ohio.
Or that massive volcano in Tonga that injected like a bazillion gallons of water into the upper atmosphere. (Surely has nothing to do with the current earth temps)
This shit is staged and prerecorded , I posted a video of tranny whore yesterday. The American citizen w/one address, fuck that crap.
Yep.
Checking address histories can reveal quite a bit.
When s/h/e/i/t says “talented and focused” all syrupy, its like s/h/e/i/t’s talking about something else, t’aint it?
This is when I realized the whole story is to mock us goyims.
It is you who are fake and gay, not to mention a traitor….
To tell the whole world he was planning to cross the Ukie border in the next 12 hours was a dead giveaway that Lira does not add up. Imagine people trying to escape from, say, East Germany, and telling all their friends and acquaintances about it, then putting an ad in the local paper, “I am about to cross along this part of the border.” And even that does not equal the insanity of such an announcement.
Lira is a publicity hound and loves to stir up drama. But if he really wanted to cross, he’d have done it in the most discreet way possible.
I will not be going out of my way to help any Ukrainians that find their way to Texas.
They owe US.
It certainly sounds like an adventure.
He’s the Bilbo Baggins of our time.
Bilbo was a piker compared to this guy. He’s more of a late stage Smeagol.
TFTL.
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LOTR………..TFTL !
I said the other day that his story made no sense. He had his computers and phones confiscated, he was arrested, and thrown in prison, was repeatedly tortured, and told he would be doing years in a work camp, only to be released from prison, given his property back, and told to leave the country. He tries to leave the country like he was told, and is detained again by the Ukrainians.
They could have very easily just killed him and put him in a hole in the ground if they wanted too.
And luckily the Trump indictments make no sense either.
Well don’t you worry about that. Trumpty Dumpty, Q and the white hats are in control. It’s 32D chess. Keep trusting the plan.
The Ukie security apparatus is just playing with Mr. Lira, like a cat with a mouse. We all know how that’s likely to end up….
It makes as much sense as anything else Ukraine has done in the last 10 years. Just look how they’re throwing their citizens into the meat grinder! 300,000 dead…so far.
It is kind of hard to reconcile being a bunch of Natzi murderer’s, killing an American Citizen for telling the truth about a war, and asking the American’s to support you in your Natzi war…
Whatever respect I did have for his commentaries, in general, over the years remains. As far as this shit show he is in, of his own making, is completely ridiculous.
Pro tips: dont announce your intentions to escape….especially if you have not escaped yet.
Dont fucken carry a tracking device on your person unless you have it powered down and in a Faraday bag.
Dont keep antogonizing a regime while you are inside their physical domain.
Stay in physical shape to be at least capable of defending yourself even though you will probably lose. Or good enough cardio to run some miles for e&e.
And most importantly, avoid the fucken people against you ya fucken momo.
It never ceases to amaze me how intelligent people can be so utterly ignorant.
Seriously dude, this whole thing is a hundred Hollywood movie tropes now.
Should have used that money of his to buy some fucken sense. Law of simplification now defines this as a psyop.
ZFG, out.
P.S. good luck dude. You will need a lot more than luck now. I would say play smart, but that ship obviously sailed after the first soiree.
P.P.S. seriously though, how goddamn ignorant do you have to be to announce your intentions on the internet via jootoob? Coach Red Pill needs to change his name to Coach How to Fail Before You Start.
When he got his kids out, he should have gone along.
Like a moth to the flame the EGO seeks fame.
I called him an “accidental war reporter,”
Exactly.
Literally the first thing I saw about this was lazy photoshop of Lira on a movie poster.
you normally send out those videos “after” you have escaped…
Gonzalo Angel Quintilio Lira López;
Journalist and Actor.
Current role= Brad MacGuffin in the off broadway hit play “The Zelensky Follies”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1921893/
From link:
Gonzalo Lira
Director Writer Producer
Gonzalo Lira was born on 29 February 1968 in Burbank, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Secuestro (2005), Soldier of Fortune (2000) and The Public Space (2018).
Born February 29, 1968
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Raised about ten miles from Lookout Mountain Air Station film studio. About a minute drive back then.
Whatever car you had that did 600mph is one that I want. Please send vehicle info. I want to piss off all the green shit bags.
ZFG, out.
P.S. I miss the Pomona drag strip and Irwindale raceway.
I typed 15 minutes in.somehow it deleted accidentally.
Maybe they’ll shave that mop of remaining hair off the back of his head and relieve him of the baseball cap toupee. What’s with bald guys clinging to the last vestiges of hair and growing them out, a la Crusty the Clown? Shave his head and wax his genitals and make him run naked through the streets.
As for Lira, the guy’s persona has always been that of an idiot. Seems like a cut rate actor.
Say what you will about his personality. He was on the ground, and he did get the truth out on what a mockery the war was. Many blessing to him.
What a selfish man. Once you have children and a family you have to think about them. His family may be safe, but they are probably not better off without him.
Of course the best strategy too escape the hell hole is announcing your plan to the world on social media before you actually try and escape. Duh
Fuck that hyphenated asshole. Let him rot. There are millions of bigger fish to fry.
Silence, bot.
Sorry. I don’t take orders from hyphenated niggers.
im not sure someone trying to escape is best served by posting his plans to do so online aforehand.
I see a lot of people asserting this. It’s stupid. The chance that someone checks and cares about this in the -30 minutes it takes between posting and reaching the border is zero.
Posting this has all sorts of massive benefits. At the least, Elon Musk read the account, if that die rolled well enough there’s potential to shift lifetimes worth of resources away from Ukraine. On the other side, once he hits up the border checkpoint, that’s officially on the record, and whether he admits it then or +/- a few minutes before then, he has no way of winning in court, so, the cost is zero.
With his other decisions made, issuing a public account of what he knows and his intentions/expectations is a very intelligent and also honorable decision.
The chance that someone checks and cares about this in the -30 minutes it takes between posting and reaching the border is zero.
Yeah they got CIA surveillance all over that place. If they were looking out for you and you posted a photo of yourself online, they would know about it-and from where it was posted in seconds.
In minutes someone would be en route to your exact location for a meet/great.
Have you not seen Jason Bourne?
Lol
He is stupid and I don’t give a shit what happens to him.
Congratulation’s, you are a complete idiot. By the time the video made it online, he was either caught or he was granted political immunity. How does it feel to be a complete idiot?
I bet you even support the fags in the State Department that could free him with a phone call but refuse to do it.. The USA is now a country of traitors, faggots, and criminals.
He deserves to be back in jail for his stupidity.
He broadcast to the World and the Ukraine Government where he was going and likely still had his tracking device cell phone on him so Ukraine knew where he was all the time.
If you want to escape, ditch the cell phone tracking device and don’t tell ANYONE where you are going.
And he should also have ditched his probably bugged motorcycle and walked the 1300 km?
You deserve to have your candy ass kicked into a wheelchair. That is what you deserve fagot.
So fake it sticks
A smart writer with deep pocket resources would have left the country without any drama, wrote this story after the fact, and then drizzled it out in stages, to fool all the credulous dupes. Who would then expend energy arguing over a fabricated story.
Of course to pull this off, he would need to know a tech person who could spoof the metadata of all times, dates and locations of his photos and texts.
Lots of State Department and FBI fags posting today, You can all go fuck yourselves. Gonzalo Lyra is a victim of the US Government criminal cartel…..
For all the idiots, a little common sense. Did he commit any sort of crime? No. All he did was give his opinion on a podcast, which the entire civilized world agrees is a human right.
Ukraine is a Natzi dominated third world shithole that has no democracy and no regard for human rights, so why is the US supporting them? The State Department should have secured his release, which they could have done with a single phone call, but our State Department are basically a bunch of traitors and criminals who are up to their necks in a scam to profit from our illegal involvement in a proxy war. They will soon expand this war into Africa and Syria, and feed your children and grandchildren into the meat grinder designed to reduce the excess population.
So continue to support Fuck Joe Biden and the criminal cartel that is working to enslave and kill you.
Geez, I’m out on bail and think I will tell the world I am jumping bail and what I am going to do, where I am going to go, and when I will get there. Don’t tell the Ukiees that have beaten and tortured me or they will come and get me. Life is a box of candy and I am not a smart man!
He isn’t missing. He was re-arrested after violating the terms of his pre-trial release, like happens in every other country, when you try to jump bail. He will now be held in custody until his trial date, the same as in any other country, where you try to jump bail. Nothing to see here. Move along.