The Argentine vice president, Cristina Kirchner, requested the recusal of the judge who is following the case for a failed attack against her, considering that she has failed to investigate the attacker’s political connections, she herself reported in a Twitter message.
Source: AFP
“I have instructed my lawyers to recuse Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti,” Kirchner wrote this Thursday in a message that he accompanied with a video criticizing the fact that the deputy Gerardo Milman, from the opposition Republican Proposal partyhas not yet been summoned to testify.
I want to share with you the following video. As a result of the events that you are going to see and hear, I have instructed my lawyers to recuse Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti. pic.twitter.com/LiLka92Mm3
– Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) November 10, 2022
“It is evident that the ‘judicial party’ does not want Cristina as a victim. She wants her imprisoned or dead,” says a voiceover in the video posted by Kirchner.
The Kirchner’s defense insists on the need to investigate this parliamentarian, who, according to a witness, may have been aware of the plans to attack the vice president.
“What is not investigated in the first few months will never be verified, and we are talking about the most serious attack since the return of democracy,” said Deputy Justice Minister Juan Martín Mena.
Kirchner, 69 years old and former president between 2007 and 2015, was attacked on September 1 when she arrived at her home in Buenos Aires by a man who slipped past his supporters and twice fired a gun very close to his head, without the gun going off.
The man was immediately arrested at the scene and is being prosecuted for the attempted murder along with two other people. A 21-year-old woman close to this group was recently released due to lack of sufficient evidence, although she has not been dismissed.
Few days ago, Kirchner maintained that businessmen who support former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) have financed demonstrations against him by radicalized groups.
In the video published this Thursday, these demonstrations were considered as a prelude to the attack.
The former president, against whom the Prosecutor’s Office has requested 12 years in prison, faces a trial for alleged corruption that will enter its final stage as of November 14 and could issue a verdict before the end of the year.
