Carrizo said that the messages that compromised him were a "joke"

Nicholas Gabriel Carrizo, the fourth arrested in the case investigating the attempted assassination of the vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, He denied having participated in the organization of the attack and assured that the incriminating messages detected on his cell phone were fired as a joke to a family member.as the Télam agency was able to reconstruct.

In Carrizo’s phone they had found messages in which he grumbled about how the attack had goneclaimed the attack should have been carried out at another time and even wondered if the weapon used was the one he had supposedly given to the attackers.

In that exchange messages the defendant and his interlocutor discuss whether the weapon used by the attacker was the 22 caliber that he would have provided and finally they conclude that it was not.

Investigators suspect that this pistol may have been discarded by Carrizo Y the processed Brenda Uliarte after the event.

The declaration

This Friday, however, he testified for three hours and he only answered questions from his defense attorney, Gastón Maranowith the aim of ignoring the facts and ensuring that these messages are part of a “joking” dialogue with a relative to whom he attributed Filo-Kirchnerist ideology.

Throughout his exhibition, in which refused to answer questions from federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and prosecutor Carlos RivoloCarrizo sought to detach himself from the attack perpetrated on September 1 against the former president.

Regarding the message in which he complained about the failure of the maneuver to kill Fernández de Kirchner, the accused declared that it was a “joke” that he was doing to a close relative and considered that the investigators took it out of context, for which reason he requested that this person be summoned to testify as a witness.

His alleged relationship with Sabag Montiel and Uliarte

At one point in his statement, Carrizo broke down in tears and assured that he met the accused Fernando Sabag Montiel and Uliarte at a party three months ago and that the man who wanted to assassinate the Vice President told her that he was out of work, so He offered to join his enterprise for the production and sale of sugar flakes.

In this context, he stated that he does not know the routes that the vendors take to those who provide the flakes to sell and maintained that each one goes out to offer the product and then they pay him a kind of canon.

In addition, he maintained that he came out to defend Uliarte in an interview with the television program Telefé Noticias because she told the snowflake vendors that he had received threats, but he pointed out that after learning that he could be linked to the attack on the Vice President went to appear before the Police to be considered as witnesses.

What did he say about the attack?

Carrizo also assured that on August 27, he was not in the area where the Vice President lives and added that at that time he did not know the place where the former president’s house was, while he assured that he did not know about the preparation of an attack before this failed attempt was carried out.

To Carrizo He was accused of having participated, together with Sabag Montiel, Uliarte and Agustina Mariel Diaz, in the planning of the premeditated attempt to kill Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner. .

He was also foisted on having provided a short .22-caliber pistol-type firearm, different from the one ultimately used in the failed attackas Télam was able to reconstruct from judicial sources that explained that this information came from the messages found on the defendant’s cell phone.

Carrizo, who became known as the head of the group of alleged sellers of sugar flakes, was arrested last Wednesday by order of Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and this morning he was transferred to the federal courts of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Retiro to take an investigative statement. .

The investigation was scheduled for Friday morning, around 10 o’clock, but the times were stretched because during the day evidence was added to the file and his defense needed to certify it before carrying out the investigation: it would be more than 100 pages with the global report of the analysis of the cell phone of Carrizo.

Carrizo’s defense attorney, Marano, maintained that his client “is not a murderer” and revealed that last night he had already requested his release, a request that would only be resolved once the investigation was concluded.

“I had no idea of ​​the criminal intent of the two people prosecuted,” said attorney Marano in statements to the press upon arrival at the federal courts in Retiro. By then he had already held an interview with his client but had not reviewed all of the evidence against him.

Before the investigation, Carrizo’s lawyer had requested that the evidence obtained on his cell phone be declared null and void because he had provided it voluntarily and as a witness, I suggest that the prosecutor Rívolo requested that it be rejected.

“As has already been said, there were reasons to seize the cell phone, since Carrizo’s conversations with Uliarte and the WhatsApp groups that he shared with Sabag Montiel were investigative for the investigation. Therefore, if Carrizo had refused to provide his phone cell phone, the judge could have ordered the kidnapping and subsequent expert opinion, even though Carrizo was a witness and not a defendant (as he was until then), “the prosecutor explained in the opinion to which Télam agreed.

The cause

Carrizo is the fourth detainee in the case and the judge must still define the procedural situation of Agustina Díaz, who was already investigated as a result of the messages she exchanged with her school friend and detainee Uliartewith whom he was discussing the idea of ​​killing the vice president.

On Thursday, Judge Capuchetti prosecuted Sabag Montiel and Uliarte as “co-authors” of the crime “attempted qualified homicide” for having tried to assassinate Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on September 1 at the door of her house. in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta, informed Télam judicial sources.

The judge charged them with the attack that day, which took place around 9:00 p.m., when the former president greeted the protesters who went to express their support for the building located at the intersection of Juncal and Uruguay streets in the city of Buenos Aires.

The magistrate understood that the crime that he foisted on both defendants is “aggravated by the use of firearms, treachery and the premeditated competition of two or more people” and that the criminal plan had been in the making at least since April 22, according to what emerges from the 96-page ruling that this agency agreed to.

Sabag Montiel (35) is the man who pointed to the head (and triggered) the two-time former president with a 32-caliber Bersa pistol that had five bullets in the magazine, while Uliarte (23) is his partner and appears in the investigation as the one who planned the attack together with the aggressorin accordance with the resolution to which Télam agreed.