Kirchner’s attacker’s partner arrested in Argentina

First modification: 09/05/2022 – 10:40Last modification: 09/05/2022 – 10:38

The woman, identified as Brenda Uliarte, was recorded in the company of the attacker Fernando Sabag Montiel on the same Thursday that the attack occurred, according to the press, contrary to her initial version that she had not seen him in the 48 hours prior to the incident.

The 23-year-old had given an interview to television in which she said that she had lived with Sabag Montiel for a month and that she did not know that he had weapons and that she had not told him about Kirchner either.

“The truth is, I don’t remember mentioning the vice president. She complained about the dollar and the economy, like everyone else,” he told the Telefe network.

Hours earlier, Gregorio Dalbón, Kirchner’s lawyer, had pointed out that the man who attacked the vice president “did not act alone.”

The lawyer had pointed out that, according to his own inquiries, there were preparatory events and that other people were aware of the attacker’s intentions.

Kirchner, 69, was unscathed from an attack with a firearm, which despite being triggered twice did not go off, on Thursday night when she greeted a group of supporters who were waiting for her at the gates of her house in Buenos Aires.

Sabag Montiel, 35, is charged with the crime of attempted aggravated homicide and has so far refused to testify in court.

The man, born in Brazil to an Argentine mother and a Chilean father, had been arrested on March 17, 2021 for carrying a knife but later the case was closed. He has a Nazi symbol tattooed on his elbow.

“I can anticipate that there are more people involved,” Dalbón insisted, specifying that “they are not public figures, they are like this boy.”

The lawyer also criticized this Sunday that the attacker’s cell phone suffered, already in the hands of the investigators, a damage that apparently prevents access to the information it contained.

“It is incredible that they make mistakes and lose data as important as those that emerge from the phone of a murderer in this case,” said the lawyer, announcing that he will initiate another case for negligence.