The Minister of Development of the Buenos Aires Community, Andrés “Cuervo” Larroque, considered that Fernando Sabag Montiel, accused of having tried to assassinate Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, “is not a loose madman”, but rather that he was part of “something deeper and more developed”, and demanded that all political sectors “call for reflection and not relativize such a serious event”.
“The attacker was not a loose madman. He was part of something deeper and developed. The assassination attempt should call us to reflection. There was haste to try to relativize such a serious event,” Larroque said in dialogue with Radio 10.
In this context, the official asked to “inquire about the intellectual authorship, the objectives, what would have been unleashed if the fact had materialized.”
“The attacker was not a loose madman. He was part of something deeper and developed. The assassination attempt should call us to reflection. There was haste to try to relativize such a serious event”
“It’s very hard to think about it, because one has love for Cristina, but you have to do the political analysis of what would have happened if that shot came out. It sought to create a situation of chaos. We have to analyze who would benefit from that“, observed the Buenos Aires minister.
Larroque referred to the “Mass for Peace” that will take place next Saturday in the Basilica of Luján and that was convened by the mayor of that Buenos Aires town, Leonardo Boto, affirming that the ruling party “welcomes that call.”
“This is not an act, but a ceremony that has the objective of calling all political and social sectors with influence in decision-making mechanisms to reflection. We have to reflect and rethink Argentine political life,” he said.
The official later noted that “what happened has to be a turning point in democracy. The return of political violence or a political crime that could not be carried out must call us all to reflection.
“Cristina represents not only that leadership but also a bastion in terms of sovereignty in a world that is in upheaval. It was not a crazy loose, it was something deeper and developed. That should call us to reflection,” Larroque insisted.
The head of the Buenos Aires Community Development portfolio later rejected that the ruling party seeks to politically take advantage of “such a painful situation” and asked to turn on “a powerful alarm to avoid times of violence since the country has already experienced political deaths.”
In statements to Télam, Larroque assessed that “what is beyond shocking is to analyze what would have happened to the country in political terms” if the attack against the Vice President materialized.
“It would have been a scene of absolute chaos in the country. Now today we are in a complex situation, we have to analyze if political violence or armed crime has returned, we start thinking about whether to do politics with a bulletproof vest in Argentina. We have to be forceful in judicial matters. We have to say enough, let’s stop the madness, let’s re-found Argentine democracy and look at which country we want to live in,” remarked the Buenos Aires official.
