Two weeks after the frustrated attack against the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, which had a full impact on the political scene, 4 are those arrested for the attempted murder and many are unknown as to what happened, mainly if the suspects acted on their own initiative.
Source: EFE
Precisely on this date, the former president (2007-2015), who has been accepted as a plaintiff in the case, reappeared in a public act together with a group of religious who work in a humble context.
“I wanted my first public activity, let’s say outside my office, to be with you. I feel that I am alive for God and for the Virgin, so it seemed to me that if I had to thank God and the Virgin, I had to do it surrounded by poor priests, villero priests and sisters,” said an emotional Fernández.
The night of last September 1 will be marked forever by the commotion that two shots without a bullet generated in the always unpredictable Argentina, a country whose high-impact legal cases traditionally end up dragging on in time surrounded by more doubts than certainties.
Although the judge in charge of the case, María Eugenia Capuchetti, keeps the file a summary secret, details of the media investigation are being frantically leaked to the press, some surprising and bizarre.
The first of the detainees, the Brazilian Fernando Sabag Montiel, 35, is the one who is credited with having approached the former president (2007-2015) during a demonstration by supporters at the gates of her house, and twice triggered few centimeters from his face, without finally being shot.
MAIN ACCUSED HAVE NOT DECLARED
Neither Sabag Montiel – arrested just after the attack and whose phone appeared mysteriously formatted when the Police wanted to decrypt it -, nor his girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, 23 years old and arrested 3 days later, have agreed to testify before the Justice, although the Prosecutor’s Office has already told them imputes “having tried to kill” the vice president “with the planning and prior agreement between the two.”
The third suspect, Agustina Díaz, 21, a friend of Uliarte and also accused of having participated in the planning of the attempted murder, did agree to speak after investigators discovered a series of messages in which her friend allegedly confessed her murder plan. “order to kill Cristina”.
According to Díaz’s lawyers, his client explained in court that “at no time did he believe” that what Uliarte told him “could be carried out”, considering that Sabag Montiel’s girlfriend was “manipulator and storyteller”.
THE BAND OF THE COPITOS
The last arrest so far was recorded this Wednesday: Nicolás Carrizo, 27, is known as the head of the “band of the copitos”, as the group of cotton candy vendors is called, to which the Brazilian and his girlfriend.
This gang was located in the demonstrations around Fernández’s house called in his support after the request for a 12-year prison sentence against him, for alleged corruption, made by a prosecutor on August 21
This Thursday, Stella Maris, Carrizo’s mother, was sure of her son’s innocence: “I think justice will be done (…) I believe and trust my son. My son is incapable of doing that,” she told reporters.
An innocence that Carrizo himself defended, accompanied by Uliarte, in a live television connection days ago, when only Sabag Montiel had been arrested: “We are not accomplices of what happened. They are threatening us. (…) They are telling us that we are a terrorist group, I dedicate myself to making cotton candy”, he said.
“I do not understand why he did it, he is a good man, he is a worker,” Uliarte added about his partner.
The same young woman, who claimed that she found out about the attack on television, made a live broadcast on Instagram shortly before being arrested, in which she stated that “there is no reconciliation with the corrupt.”
POSSIBLE LINKS WITH EXTREME IDEOLOGY GROUPS
Among the endless theories – some apparently conspiracy – about who and how the attack on the Kirchnerist leader was conceived, which the Government of Alberto Fernández attributes to “hate speech” from political, judicial and media spaces, the gaze also rests on the possible responsibility of parts of groups with extreme ideology.
As confirmed to Efe on Thursday by sources from the Federal Intelligence Agency, its head, Agustín Rossi, presented material to Capuchetti that could link the “Federal Revolution” group – which has been making escraches to government figures for a few months – with the attempt to assassination.
The head of Intelligence presented some audios of a live broadcast made on August 26 on the organization’s Twitter account, in which some of its members are heard saying phrases related to killing the vice president; his son, deputy Máximo Kirchner, and President Fernández.
