Argentine justice arrests fourth suspect of participating in attack against vice president: media

The Argentine Justice ordered the arrest of a fourth suspected of participating in the organization of the failed attack with a firearm against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner almost two weeks ago, local media reported on Wednesday.

Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti requested the arrest of Nicolás Gabriel Carrizo, who had declared that, after the assassination attempt, he received Brenda Uliarte at his home, the alleged partner of the attackerFernando Sabag Montiel, both already detained, reported the newspapers Clarion Y The nation.

Sabag Montiel was arrested on the night of September 1near the vice president’s house, after he fired a pistol twice centimeters from Fernández’s head without the bullet coming out.

“We have nothing to do with it,” Carrizo had said standing next to Uliarte in a television interview after the attack.

On Tuesday, the justice arrested the third suspect of being part of a small and informal organization that planned the attack against Fernández, the powerful Peronist vice president who also ruled the country between 2007 and 2015, according to the judicial hypotheses spread by the media.

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