Friday, March 29

Justice seeks accomplices among the people who were close to Kirchner’s attacker



The issue has all of Argentina on edge. This weekend has begun to advance the investigation into the event that occurred on Thursday night in the city of Buenos Aires and involves an attack on the figure of the nation’s vice president. After a Friday of intense demonstrations -of which the main one was the one that went to the historic Plaza de Mayo and which brought together thousands of people who protested against the attack for long hours in the sun-, soon the Judicial process. Statements have been taken and the details of the event are being studied. Last Friday, a psychological examination was carried out in the city of Buenos Aires on a citizen of Brazilian origin arrested after having attacked the former Argentine president with a revolver near the official’s home in the elegant neighborhood of Recoleta. As a result of this expertise, it was deduced that the individual, 35 years old and prone to fanaticism -as could be seen after analyzing his behavior and activity on social networks- was already in a position to testify before Justice. Statements On Friday afternoon -while the massive demonstration to condemn the attack that took place on Thursday was taking place in front of the Casa Rosada-, the judge investigating the case, María Eugenia Capuchetti and the prosecutor Carlos Rívolo, took a statement from the Argentine vice president. According to the local media Infobae, the official declared that, at the moment in which the individual pointed the gun at her, and pulled the trigger, she did not realize what was happening. The media also assures that the vice president declared that, at the moment in which the video shows that she crouched down after the attempted shot, she was really looking for a book that had fallen to the ground. In her words, the former president would not have made political references, but simply recounted the events in chronological order. On Friday afternoon, Cristina Kirchner left her home for the first time since what happened, but she did not make any statement to the press or to her followers. In addition to collecting the words of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the judge and the prosecutor went in search of the testimony of the accused of trying to kill the current vice president -the cause has been considered a manslaughter-, Fernando Sabag Montiel. Specifically, at 6:45 p.m. on Friday local time, a few minutes after the demonstration in Plaza de Mayo ended, the judge and the prosecutor went from the courts to the police headquarters on Cavia Street, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo. , where the defendant has been detained since Thursday night. After having carefully listened to the accusation against him, Montiel refused to make any kind of statement. When consulted both by the prosecutor of the case and by the judge about a blow that he had in the face, the attacker assured that it was the Kirchnerist protesters who caused it. It should be remembered that, when the incident occurred, the first to arrest the aggressor, even before the bodyguards themselves and the Police, were the followers of Cristina Kirchner who took the individual by force and took him to where the police forces were. . The investigation Currently, the judge is analyzing some details related to the preparation of the incident, finding out if there was premeditation and how the attempted attack came about. Specifically, the contents of Montiel’s mobile phone and a tablet that was seized from his home are studied. Security cameras around the vice president’s apartment are also being analyzed. On the other hand, the judge who has in her hands the most important case in Argentina, has a special interest in learning about and reconstructing the path that Montiel traveled, how she got to Cristina Kirchner’s home, what path she took. The investigation is also focusing on knowing if the attacker acted alone or if there were accomplices. Specifically, if among the protesters waiting at the vice president’s door were other people waiting to attack her. So far, between Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 24 statements have already been taken that have contributed to the cause.


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