Fernando Sabag Montiel and his partner Brenda Uliarte were prosecuted on Thursday for the “aggravated” and “treachery” attempted murder of Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in events that occurred two weeks ago, according to the text of the judicial resolution.
Sabag “is accused of having premeditatedly tried to kill Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, counting on the prior planning and agreement of Uliarte and Agustina Mariel Díaz”, all of them under arrest, Judge María Capuchetti in his opinion.
The judge held that Sabag is “co-author criminally responsible for the crime of qualified homicide, aggravated by the use of firearms, treachery and the premeditated concurrence of two or more people, to the degree of attempt.” Capuchetti has not yet decided on the prosecution of Díaz or Nicolás Carrizo, a fourth arrested in the case.
The magistrate ordered preventive detention for the two defendants and seized them for 100 million pesos (about 670,000 dollars).
An attack in which the gun was not fired
The alleged attempted attack occurred on September 1, when Sabag, 35, managed to approach Kirchner, mixed in with the group of supporters who greeted her in front of her residence in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
He aimed a few centimeters from the head of the former president (2007-2015) with a 32-caliber pistol, loaded with five projectiles.
