The attack, unprecedented in this stage of Argentine democracy, deserved the immediate repudiation of ministerslegislators, high-ranking political leaders of the opposition and the ruling party, unions and personalities from different sectors, who asked for the case to be clarified.
The attack was captured in images taken by Public Television in the vicinity of the former president’s home, while the aggressor, identified as Fernando Andre Sabag MontielHe was detained by agents of the Federal Police.
In one of the images released, it is clearly seen when the Vice President had just gotten out of a car to enter her home and a weapon was close to her head. In the image it seems that the aggressor tries to shoot.
President Albert Fernandez considered the event as “the most serious” since the return of democracy and declared this Friday a national holiday “so that in peace and harmony the people can express themselves in defense of life and democracy and in solidarity with our Vice President.”
The head of state gave a speech on national television a few minutes after midnight, while the chief of staff, Juan Manzur, summoned a cabinet meeting for 8.30.
The Vice President returned to her home tonight at the corner of Juncal and Uruguay, in the Recoleta neighborhood, where a person infiltrated the crowd tried to attack her with a guna very serious attack that was confirmed a few minutes later by the Ministry of Security.
During the usual round of greetings and affection that the ex-president carried out 11 days ago among the militants who came to greet her on her return from the Senate, the aggressor, with tattoos on one of his hands, brought a weapon inches from her face and tried trigger, although no shot was fired.
Public TV (@TV_Publica) recorded the image of the weapon with which a man tried to attack Cristina Kirchner pic.twitter.com/4M7xFWg2Yh
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The individual was arrested by the custodians of the head of the Senate and then taken to a police cell phone, where he covered his face with a coat, according to what was broadcast on television.
Minutes after the event, the Ministry of Security confirmed through a statement that a “man would be armed” and that “he was identified by arresting him on Juncal and Uruguay streets.”
A few meters from the scene, a Bersa brand .32 caliber weapon was found, which had bullets and was suitable for firing. According to investigations by the Argentine Federal Police, the pistol had five bullets in its magazine.
The Security Minister, Aníbal Fernández, in dialogue with the C5N channel, explained that the detained person “had a weapon” and that he was initially detained “by custody personnel.”
“They take him away and find the weapon. Now this matter has to be analyzed by our people to see the disposition that this person had,” said the minister, adding: “We have to wait for a scientist to do the analysis. Let’s wait a bit, no I want to make things bigger than necessary. You have to talk seriously.”
Ministers, secretaries of state, legislators, trade unionists and personalities from different sectors immediately issued statements repudiating the attack. Among other members of the cabinet, the head of the ministers, Juan Manzur and officials Sergio Massa (Economy) and Aníbal Fernández (Security) joined the repudiation, which was joined by deputies and senators from different political parties.
The video of the gun against @CFKArgentina pic.twitter.com/8j1xpMnPoe
– Lautaro Maislin (@LautaroMaislin) September 2, 2022
From the opposition, pronouncements of the former president Mauricio Macri and the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, among others.
The Justicialista Party of the province of Buenos Aires announced in the midst of the commotion the suspension of the party Congress and the act scheduled for Saturday in the town of Merlo.
“We demand the urgent clarification of the attack on the vice president, produced in a context of growing media and verbal violence by some political leaders who spread hate speech towards the vice president and what her figure represents within Peronism,” he said in a statement. .
Senators and deputies from the Front of All and Together for Change convened themselves in the National Congress to make public a joint declaration rejecting the attack on Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the door of her home.
The legislators of the two main political benches met after 11:40 p.m. in the Arturo Illia room of the Senate, where they took a joint photograph as a sign of unity before the attempted attack on the Vice President.
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) expressed its “deepest repudiation” to the attack suffered by the vice president and maintained that the “attempted assassination must challenge all political leaders who day by day tense the social climate to irrational levels” and called a meeting of authorities for 10 o’clock on Friday.
At the same time, the Workers’ CTA called for an active national strike with mobilization in repudiation of the “attempted assassination against the compañera Cristina Fernández de Kirchner” and announced that she will take this proposal to a meeting with the CGT to “articulate a common action” of the labor movement.
