aggressor of Cristina Fernández and her partner, charged with attempted aggravated homicide

First modification: 09/16/2022 – 02:14

Sabag “is accused of having premeditatedly tried to kill Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, counting on the prior planning and agreement of Uliarte and Agustina Mariel Díaz”, all of them under arrest, Judge María Capuchetti in his opinion.

The judge held that Sabag is “co-author criminally responsible for the crime of qualified homicide, aggravated by the use of firearms, treachery and the premeditated concurrence of two or more people, to the degree of attempt.” Capuchetti has not yet decided on the prosecution of Díaz or Nicolás Carrizo, a fourth arrested in the case.

The magistrate ordered preventive detention for the two defendants and seized them for 100 million pesos (about 670,000 dollars).

An attack in which the gun was not fired

The alleged attempted attack occurred on September 1, when Sabag, 35, managed to approach Kirchner, mixed in with the group of supporters who greeted her in front of her residence in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

He aimed a few centimeters from the head of the former president (2007-2015) with a 32-caliber pistol, loaded with five projectiles.

Although he triggered it twice, the weapon did not fire because, according to the experts, there was no bullet in the chamber.

Sabag, who wears tattoos with Nazi symbols, was overpowered by Kirchner’s supporters and detained after the arrival of the police.

Uliarte, 23, was also at the scene and left after her boyfriend’s arrest, surveillance cameras in the area showed. She was arrested three days later.

Photos in which Uliarte appears holding weapons are attached to the judge’s resolution. Images of Sabag carrying a gun were also extracted from the defendants’ mobile phones and social networks.

The attack occurred in the midst of the daily mobilizations in front of Kirchner’s apartment after a prosecutor requested 12 years in prison and perpetual political disqualification for her in the framework of a corruption trial still under way, and that the vice president considers a persecution politics.

The alleged murder plan

“I sent a guy to kill Cristi (sic),” Uliarte said in a message to her friend Díaz on the night of August 27, according to the newspaper ‘Clarín’, which cites the investigators.

The conversation alluded to a first attempt to attack Kirchner, five days before the failed attack, as was detected in the conversations between Uliarte and Sabag Montiel.

And in a conversation two months before the failed attack, Uliarte told Díaz: “I am organizing to go make a mess at the Casa Rosada (Government) with Molotov cocktails and everything.”

“I go with the iron (weapon) and I shoot Cristina. They give me the ovaries to do it,” said Uliarte, according to the version released by the media.

Kirchner, 69 years old and the main leader of center-left Peronism, evoked this Thursday in his Senate office the solidarity of his compatriot Pope Francis after the assassination attempt, of which he said that he was unharmed “thanks to God and the Virgin “.

“Pope Francis called me very early the next day. He called me early on Friday (September 2), we were talking on the phone and he told me something like that acts of hate and violence are always preceded by words and verbs of hate,” Kirchner told a group of Catholic priests and nuns and lay people who work in poor neighborhoods, in his first public appearance since the failed attack.