One of the lawyers of Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández in the legal case for the attempted attack she suffered two weeks ago considered this Wednesday that “the hypothesis of the loose loquito was exhausted” and that the group must be identified as being behind the event.
Manuel Ubeira told radius 10 that the vice president’s task is to “get as far as the latest evidence leads us” to determine “who is behind” the Brazilian citizen Fernando Sabag Montiel, material author of the failed attack against the vice president in Buenos Aires on September 1.
Sabag Montiel, 35, was arrested after shooting twice with his Bersa pistol inches from the vice president’s head. The gun had five bullets in it but none were chambered, so the bullet didn’t come out, according to police.
His girlfriend, Argentine Brenda Uliarte, 23 years old and who was in the same area at the time of the events, she was arrested three days later and both are accused of having tried to assassinate the Peronist leader. Another Argentine, identified as Agustina Díaz and who is a friend of Uliarte, was arrested Monday night on suspicion of collusion.
The three were transferred this Wednesday to the courts to be investigated. The Brazilian and his partner have already been questioned other times and for Díaz it will be the first time that she sits before the Prosecutor’s Office, although her lawyers have told journalists that the woman has nothing to do with the attack and she does not will declare.
Fernández, who governed from 2007 to 2015, appeared the day before as a plaintiff in the case, which allows him to have access to the file.
His lawyer stressed that “this is not an act of an irresponsible madman who is on the loose… it seems that it is a group of people organized with a certain purpose.”
The frustrated attack has generated commotion. For more than two decades, the Peronist leader has been a central figure in Argentine politics, where she has served as legislator, president for two consecutive terms and now vice president.
The aggressor has lived in Argentina since the 1990s and images obtained from his now inactive social media accounts have shown him posing with his hands and arms covered in tattoos associated with Nazi symbols.
Several media outlets have reported that messages were discovered on Uliarte’s cell phone linking her to far-right groups. AP was unable to confirm this information.
A photo of Uliarte that was deleted from her social networks and published by the press showed her participating in a march of several dozen people on August 18 against the government.
“We cannot continue to sleep,” the woman wrote next to the image in which she is seen before the Executive headquarters and affirmed that those who govern in Argentina “are communists disguised as pseudo-democrats.”
The days before the attempted attack, the vicinity of the vice president’s home were full of supporters after a prosecutor requested a 12-year prison sentence for her and lifelong disqualification from holding public office for alleged acts of corruption committed during her tenure. government.
The vice president denies the charges and points out that justice acts under the dictates of opposition leaders to remove her from political life.
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