Brenda Uliarte, Fernando Sabag Montial’s girlfriend, concluded this Tuesday night her investigative statement before the court that is carrying out the investigation for the assassination attempt against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerwhere he denied his participation in the event, judicial sources reported.
In the meantime, Sabag Montiel, accused of firing a weapon against the vice president last Thursday night, again refused to testifyafter being called by Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti to expand his investigative statement in the courts of Comodoro Py.
As Télam was able to reconstruct, the defendant refused to give a statement but said that his partner, Brenda, had nothing to do with the events.
Both were transferred in the afternoon from their places of detention by the Airport Security Police (PSA), under the custody of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) to the federal courts, where the official defenders have offices.
The 23-year-old girl was transferred to the federal courts of Comodoro Py from the Federal Police headquarters, in the Villa Lugano neighborhood, where she answered only the defense attorney’s questions and refused to answer questions from the court and the prosecution.
Uliarte is being investigated for attempted murder, a fact about which her defense attorney asked at least six questions and at all times she denied her participation. According to what Télam was able to reconstruct, they saw her “entirely” and she did not appear nervous.
Before the investigation beganUliarte was shown all the evidence, including the weapon that Fernando Sabag Montiel wielded the day he tried to attack the vice president.
As this agency was able to reconstruct, Uliarte said that what they showed her was not hers, and she only went to the Recoleta neighborhood that night to accompany her boyfriend, with whom she was dating a while ago.
In addition, he claimed to have no knowledge that Sabag Montiel was capable of doing what he did..
He would also have claimed that what happened seems aberrant to him and that if he had known that his partner was going to do it, he would not have stayed in that place, beyond the fact that she has differences with the party to which Vice President Fernández de Kirchner belongs. Finally, Uliarte indicated that he has no hatred.
The defendant’s decision to deny her participation in the attempted murder shows the difference in strategy in relation to Sabag Montielwhich until now refused to declare and According to the film and photographic records, he is the one who wielded the weapon that was pointed at Fernández de Kirchner..
By denying participation in the event, Uliarte also denied having been part of the planning of the attack.
Prior to the investigation, after arriving at the Retiro building this afternoon, the young woman was taken in the middle of a strong security operation to the fifth floor to meet with the official defender Gustavo Kollman.
Around 7 pm, Uliarte was taken to the court led by María Eugenia Capuchetti to give a statement.
“He is going to testify”, sources with access to the investigation had advanced who, at the same time, indicated that he could seek to detach himself from Fernando André Sabag Montiel (35), the man who tried to shoot the vice president in the head.
The difference in procedural strategies could be evidenced since the official defender who represents Sabag Montiel, Juan Martín Hermida, excused himself from also defending Uliarte due to “opposing interests”.
Meanwhile, this afternoon the magistrate lifted the summary secrecy that she had imposed on the file last Sunday hours before Uliarte’s arrest, which took place at the Palermo station of the San Martín railway.
Sources of the investigation assured Télam that these are photos in which the Brazilian citizen and his girlfriend Brenda Uliarte are seen with a Bersa pistol like the one used in the failed attack and with the ammunition seized in the framework of the investigation. in progress.
Among the photographs there is one of the weapon allegedly used by the aggressor with six loose bullets and two boxes of 50 ammunition each, which would be the ones seized during one of the raids.
The fact that there are six loose bullets would be an indication that one of them was used to test the weapon, given that when the police seized it at the scene it had five projectiles in the magazine, while a skill carried out on the revolver days later he found that it had gunpowder residue, which showed that it had been used in the short term.
According to what the technology experts managed to establish, the photos were taken several months before the assassination attempt took place and are part of the evidence that was shown tonight to the accused in their respective preliminary statements scheduled for this Tuesday afternoon.
The photographs were recorded on the SIM and memory card of the detained man’s Samsung A50 cell phone and could be recovered by investigators.
Sources of the investigation confirmed to Télam that heThe existence of more images would account for the alleged premeditation of the attack, while at this time they are trying to corroborate if the aggressors carried out prior intelligence in the surroundings of the vice president’s house in Juncal and Uruguay.
During the afternoon, the news channel C5N published a video in which you can see how Sabag Montiel and Uliarte arrived together at the scene of the event on Thursday night when the Brazilian citizen (resident since 1993 in Argentina) pointed a Bersa .32-caliber pistol at the head of the Vice President, which I had 5 bullets in the magazine.
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“He is not a loose madman, it is not just him and his girlfriend, they belong to a group of “heaters” who feel represented by some political ideas, although it is not proven that they have support from any space,” said a source from the investigation. .
