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In Buenos Aires they arrested Agustina García, who according to the investigations would have been part of the assassination attempt against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The suspect is a friend of the attacker’s girlfriend, the three remain in custody while the search for more evidence is carried out. Fernández denounced this Tuesday that she has received new death threats against her.
A new suspect was arrested in Argentina for the attempted assassination of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The woman was arrested after information was found on the mobile phone of the partner of the alleged perpetrator of the attack, Fernando Sabag Montiel, according to local media such as La Nación and Clarín.
The investigations indicate that on the night of September 1, Sabag Montiel was the one who pulled the trigger at least once, but the weapon did not fire, despite the fact that it was loaded with five bullets.
The 35-year-old man is a Brazilian citizen and the photos published on his social networks, now deactivated, show that he would have tattoos with Nazi symbols on his arms and hands.
The suspect, whose name is Agustina Díaz, according to The Associated Press news agency, is the third to be arrested in the two weeks that the investigation has been taking and is accused of belonging to the criminal organization that planned the frustrated attack and would be a close friend of Brenda Uliarte, Sabag’s girlfriend.
An official who requested anonymity due to the confidentiality of the investigation commented that “with what we are learning so far, the role played by Brenda becomes more relevant.”
Uliarte kept Agustina Díaz’s phone under the name “love of my life” and was in contact with her before and after the attack and according to the authorities it was Díaz who helped Brenda escape.
The authorities are trying to reconstruct the case based on security recordings and mobile phone communications, in addition, they want to determine if days before there was a suspect near the president’s house.
The assassination attempt has caused a great stir in the politics of Argentina, which was already under strong tensions caused by the deep economic crisis and by the judicial processes that the vice president faces for alleged corruption during her government.
After these accusations, the residence of the vice president was packed with supporters days before the attack. If Ella Fernandez is found guilty she would not be able to hold public office again for the rest of her life and she could face a 12-year prison sentence.
Fernández has vehemently denied the accusations and says she is the victim of political persecution that is trying to remove her from public life.
New threats against CFK
According to information from the authorities, who was president from 2007 to 2015, received a death threat through a telephone call to the 911 emergency line. The communication was made from the city of La Plata and is under investigation, according to the minister. of Security, Anibal Fernandez.
The call was made from the city of La Plata, some 70 kilometers south of Buenos Aires, and “is being investigated,” said Security Minister Aníbal Fernández. In addition, they have increased the security of the president and her family.
Fernández de Kirchner asked before the justice to be part of the attack process as “private accuser with respect to any other person whose responsibility arises from the investigation.”
In addition, he requested that his lawyers have urgent access to the process.
With AP, Reuters and EFE.
