The cell phone of Fernando Sabag Montiel, the man who tried to assassinate the vice president on Thursday Cristina Fernandez de Kirchnercould be lost as evidence during the trial, since, according to the media, the equipment was “factory reset”.
Apparently, the computer experts in charge of unlocking the attacker’s phone from Cristina Fernandez they found that “the device will restart and return to its factory state” if attempts to open it continuewhich could make it impossible to access the key information to know if Sabag Montiel acted alone or in complicity in the assassination attempt against the former president.
After two days of trying to unlock the phone, the judicial investigators, who are trying to reconstruct the scene through the phone calls and text messages that the accused received before the attack on Cristina Fernandez, they found a legend that says verbatim that “the electronic equipment was factory reset”.
Currently, the mobile device is in police custody in the federal court in charge of Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti, who has not offered any statement after the information about the alleged reset of the equipment was leaked.
The authorities seek to determine if the reset of the equipment occurred remotely or if it was an “error” by the computer group who tried to access the information on the device. This Sunday the experts who worked on the analysis of Sabag Montiel’s cell phone had to testify.
What CFK’s defense says
After leaking the information, the defense attorney for the vice presidentGregorio Dalbon, described the situation with the cell phone as “very serious” and held Judge Capuchetti responsible for the possible loss of information.
“The responsibility of the Judge, the Prosecutor and those who manipulated the accused’s cell phone is very serious. If this information is confirmed, we will initiate another case against all those responsible for the tremendous judicial ‘error’, and/or possible aggravated cover-up,” the defender of Cristina Fernandez.
The supposed deletion of information from Sabag Monitiel’s cell phone would not only prevent the reconstruction of the events prior to Cristina’s attack, but it would also prevent knowing whether the accused acted alone or in a group.
