defense of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner informed that he will request before the Federal Justice that the case against Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, the man who tried to assassinate the vice president on Thursday in front of his residence, be classified as an “attempted femicide with aggravated attempt”.
The request, which was announced this Saturday by the defense attorney for Cristina FernandezGregorio Dalbón, argues that “the case should be classified as attempted femicide to the degree of attempted aggravated treachery” after considering that “the former president was in a situation of extreme vulnerability at the time of the attack”.
“We are analyzing the qualification of what happened with Cristina Fernandez. It should be attempted Femicide (Belém Do Pará) in the degree of aggravated attempt (with treachery and firearms) ”, wrote the lawyer Gregorio Dalbón on his Twitter account on Saturday at noon.
He also added that the classification of the charges should also include “illegal possession of firearms”. “The criminal types with these murderers should not be minimized,” he concluded in his message.
What is known so far about the accused
According to the Télam news agency, which cites official government sources, the defendant would have refused to give statements on Friday night before federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and the prosecutor in charge of the attempted murder of the vice president, Carlos Rívolo.
It is known that currently He is detained at the Federal Police headquarters in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo. waiting for the investigations to progress. Last Thursday, President Alberto Fernández instructed the state security forces and Judge Capuchetti to “respect the civil rights of the accused.”
Until now, Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, 35 years old and a Brazilian national, is the only accused in the case of “attempted attempted murder” against the leader of the Front of Allthough the investigators do not rule out that he has worked in complicity with other people. Neither hypothesis has been ruled out.
Sabag Montiel was arrested in flagrante delicto on Thursday night in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta, seconds after firing a firearm twice in front of the face of the Vice President of the Republic, who had just got out of her vehicle and greeted the supporters holding a vigil outside his house.
If found guilty of these crimes, the Brazilian could face a sentence of between ten and 15 years in prison. Nevertheless, if the crimes qualify as “aggravated cause,” you could spend up to 23 years in federal prison.
