Argentine President Alberto Fernández declared this Friday (2) a national holiday because of the attack on the country’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, who was nearly killed by a Brazilian last Thursday (1st).
Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, 35, held a gun to Cristina’s head while greeting supporters outside her home in Buenos Aires, but the gun did not go off and the man was arrested.
“This event of enormous gravity is the most serious since we regained our democracy,” Fernández said in a speech broadcast on national television last night. Said. “Cristina is alive because, for some technically yet unconfirmed reason, the five-round gun was not fired,” he said.
In his speech, the president urged all Argentines to “reject all forms of violence”. “Let the turmoil, fear and denial provoked by this fact become a commitment in democracy to permanently erase hatred and violence from life. Therefore, I have declared tomorrow a national holiday. [esta sexta] Thus, in peace and harmony, the Argentine people can express themselves in defense of life and democracy and in solidarity with our vice president.”
The ruling coalition Frente de Todos (FdT) has called for demonstrations in Buenos Aires this Friday.
Cristina, Vice President as of December 2019, is 69 years old and has ruled the country from 2007 to 2015.
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Montiel has lived in Argentina since 1993 and had already passed the police in 2021 for carrying an unusual weapon.
According to the Clarín newspaper, the app is commercially registered as a “free city and suburban motorized transport service” provider, a category corresponding to drivers.
source: Noticias
