Federal judge Maria Eugenia Capuchetti prosecuted Nicolás Gabriel Carrizo and Agustina Díaz with preventive detention as secondary participants in the assassination attempt against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, perpetrated on September 1, judicial sources reported.
The magistrate assessed in her resolution that both defendants had on their cell phones -through their Whatsapp systems- sensitive information linked to the failed attack against the former presidentaccording to what emerges from the judicial ruling to which Télam had access.
Who are they and what were their roles?
Reed He is the leader of the group of alleged vendors for whom the co-authors of the assassination attempt, Fernando Sabag Montiel and Brenda Uliarte, worked.
DiazMeanwhile, Uliarte is a friend who, after the failed attack, suggested that she erase all the information on her cell phone and that she had known before that she had acquired a gun.
In her resolution, Judge Capuchetti considered that “The events of September 1 were the final chapter of the criminal plan previously agreed upon, designed and studied by Brenda Elizabeth Uliarte, Fernando André Sabag Montiel, Nicolás Gabriel Carrizo and Agustina Mariel Díaz”.
The judge accused Carrizo and Diaz What criminally liable secondary participants of 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” and ordered embargoes for 100 million pesos each, according to the ruling of almost 130 pages to which Télam accessed.
“He was very close, the weapon failed, I don’t understand, he was doing well”Reed
In that sense, he pointed out that “it was proven by the messages sent prior to the event, and after it, that, Carrizo and Díaz planned the criminal event and their participation will be secondary since, if they had not made their contributions, the crime could also have been configured in the way it was done and according to the agreed criminal plan.”
About the plan of attack
For the magistrate, the criminal plan had “its beginning on April 22 of the current yeardate on which Brenda Uliarte would have acquired the semi-automatic pistol, single action, caliber 32 auto, Bersa brand, model Lusber 84, with the number ‘25037’ on the left side of the barrel, later used by Sabag Montiel to commit the act investigated”.
“On the appointed day, Brenda Uliarte told a contact identified as ‘Serena’ that she had acquired a firearm. Specifically, she told him ‘yes, I have an iron, I bought it because my ex is boss.’ The same day he also reported this circumstance to another contact scheduled as ‘Fran’, to whom he referred ‘don’t worry, nothing is going to happen… the iron is mine'”.
Reed He was arrested by order of Judge Capuchetti after on his cell phone -provided voluntarily when he spontaneously appeared as a witness- conversations prior to the failed attack were found in which he was already talking about the idea of killing the Vice President.
Conversations after the attack were also found on his phone related to the desire to hide evidentiary material; He even spoke of a pistol that he had allegedly given to the assailants and that was not used in the attack.
“He was very close, the weapon failed, I don’t understand, he was doing well,” lamented the defendant in a message exchange he had with a person he trusted identified among his telephone contacts as “Andrea”, to whom he also informed that he himself had provided a pistol that was not the one that Sabag Montiel finally used, according to what Télam was able to reconstruct from sources with access to the investigation.
On September 2, the day after the failed attack, Uliarte and Carrizo had a conversation that stands out among the many held around those days, linked to the assassination plan:
– Carrizo: “Do you want to do it?”.
– Uliarte: “I swear yes. And my shot won’t miss. But you have to think about it. It happens that Nando (for Sabag Montiel) doesn’t have much practice, his pulse trembled.”
– Carrizo: “They linked you to the case. I would tell you to come here.”
– Uliarte: “Does the post know my data? I’m in a safe place, don’t worry, you guys have nothing to do with it. What we say stays here.”
– Carrizo: “If you went out by all means. You are the bride.”
– Uliarte: “Yes, but if I hide, it won’t happen. They won’t find me, I know why I’m telling you.”
Incriminating conversations also appeared in the case of Díaz: Uliarte told her in July, long before the failed attack, that he had in mind to assassinate former president Fernández de Kirchner twice.
“You realize the mess you’re going to get into, don’t you?” Diaz then asked him and then sent him another message: “They’re going to look for you everywhere if they find out that you’re an accomplice in the death of the vice president”. In another exchange of messages, Díaz would tell her friend “kill whoever you want. And hide your tracks.”
Referring to Díaz, the judge held that “He offered his cooperation after the fact, based on the previous promise, giving advice and warning of the dangers that could appear, so that said plan is not revealed”.
In this case, Sabag Montiel, the man who wielded and triggered the 32-caliber Bersa pistol centimeters from the Vice President’s head, and his partner “Ambar” Uliarte, who accompanied him that night to Juncal and Uruguay.
The magistrate revealed in her resolution that among the measures that are still in progress is the “extraction of the content of Fernando André Sabag Montiel’s cell phone, which to date is in full progress by the PSA (Airport Security Police) and whose result can lead to new accusations and the determination of investigation courses not addressed until now.
