The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, repudiated the fact and decreed this Friday as a non-working day for the population to show solidarity with Cristina Fernández. The attacker, a 35-year-old Brazilian, has a criminal record and has tattoos related to Nazi symbolism
During the night of Thursday, September 1, security officials in Argentina arrested a man who pointed a gun at the vice president of that country, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, when she arrived at her home in the La Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
The tense moment was captured on video and broadcast on social networks. There Fernández is observed greeting the protesters who support him in the judicial process that follows him, and who decided to camp near her house, when a weapon appears in front of her.
The Argentine vice president gets scared and that is when her escorts act to defend her.
The attacker, a Brazilian national, camouflaged himself in the crowd, took out the pistol, which was loaded with five bullets, pointed it at the head of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and pulled the trigger, but it did not fire. https://t.co/r5avEoV38u pic.twitter.com/01Pa5TCFnc
– THE COUNTRY (@el_pais) September 2, 2022
Several personalities from the Latin American and European political sphere, including the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, sent messages of solidarity to the vice president after that assassination attempt.
We send our solidarity to the Vice President @CFKArgentinabefore the attempt on his life. We strongly repudiate this action that seeks to destabilize the peace of the brother Argentine people. The Great Homeland is with you companion! #ForceArgentina #ForceCristina pic.twitter.com/BEqRsYIMjl
– Nicolas Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) September 2, 2022
That the author suffers all legal consequences. This violence and political hatred that we see being stimulated by some is a threat to democracy in our region. The democrats of the world will not tolerate any violence in political differences.
– Lula 13 (@LulaOficial) September 2, 2022
All my solidarity with Cristina Fernández, the vice president of Argentina, for the assassination attempt she has suffered. My solidarity also with the Argentine government and people.
I am convinced that he will know how to advance in peace and with dialogue. A hug from Spain.
– Yolanda Diaz (@Yolanda_Diaz_) September 2, 2022
The most complete solidarity of Mexico with Cristina Fernández and the Government of the Argentine Republic.
– Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) September 2, 2022
We condemn the cowardly assassination attempt against our sister @CFKArgentina. All our solidarity to the vice president. The Great Homeland is with you sister. The criminal and servile right to imperialism will not pass. The free and worthy people #Argentina will defeat her. pic.twitter.com/oKQe5oI2BZ
– Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) September 2, 2022
My absolute repudiation of the attack suffered by Cristina Kirchner, which fortunately has had no consequences for the vice president. This very serious fact requires immediate and profound clarification by the justice system and the security forces.
– Mauricio Macri (@mauriciomacri) September 2, 2022
We are relieved to learn that the Vice President @CFKArgentina be fine The United States joins Argentina and all peaceful people in rejecting violence, extremism, and hatred everywhere.
— Ambassador Marc R. Stanley (@USAmbassadorARG) September 2, 2022
Institutions in Argentina also sent statements repudiating what happened in the La Recoleta neighborhood.
Communiqué of all the blocks and interblocks of the @SenateArgentina repudiating the assassination attempt against @CFKArgentina pic.twitter.com/WeW8teChPs
– Juliana di Tullio (@ditulliojuli) September 2, 2022
Statement from the cabinet of the Ministry of Health of the Nation on the attempted assassination of @CFKArgentina pic.twitter.com/cLGdbEDTU7
– Ministry of Health of the Nation (@msalnacion) September 2, 2022
After the incident, the president of that country, Alberto Fernández, sent a recorded message in which he reproaches the attack of which Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been a victim and warns that it is the “most serious event that has happened since we have recovered our democracy.”
In his opinion, the vice president is still alive because “for an unconfirmed technical reason”, the weapon that was used against her did not work despite having five bullets in her comb.
He stressed that there is the right to think differently because we live in a democracy, but speeches that promote hate “cannot take place because they engender violence and there is no possibility that violence coexists with democracy.”
He asked everyone to reproach any act of violence and isolate those words aimed at disqualifying and offending, since they only divide Argentines. Similarly, he asked the judge handling the case to preserve the attacker’s life and to clarify the facts as quickly as possible.
“For this reason, I have decided to declare a national holiday tomorrow so that, in peace and harmony, the Argentine people can express themselves in defense of life, democracy and in solidarity with our vice president.”
It was learned that the judges in the case visited the residence of Vice President Cristina Fernández while the investigations progress in the middle of a holiday decreed by the government in light of this fact.
The aggressor was identified as Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, a 35-year-old Brazilian citizen who has lived in Argentina since 1993 and who works as a taxi driver.
Argentine media indicate that Sabag Montiel has a criminal record. In March 2021 he was prosecuted for having an unconventional white weapon, arguing that this large knife was for his personal defense.
In addition, it is described that Cristina Fernández’s aggressor has several tattoos related to Nordic and Germanic mythology, including one on the shoulder that represents a “Schwarze Sonne”, a black sun, a symbol linked to the occult philosophy of Nazism and used by the Adolf Hitler’s SS.
With information from D.W. / Clarion / Telesur / Latest News /
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