Argentine police found two boxes of ammunition filled with at least 100 bullets in the home of Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, who tried to shoot Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Kirchner last night. The information is taken from the newspaper. La Nacion.
The bullets were 9 mm in diameter and were sent for forensic examination.
In addition to ammunition, police seized an HP laptop computer and documents belonging to his girlfriend from his home in San Martín, in the metropolitan area of Montiel’s capital, Buenos Aires.
After the attack, the house of Brazilian Montiel, who has been living in Argentina since 1993, was searched. According to the news of the Clarín newspaper, the Brazilian’s cell phone and the gun used in the attempt to shoot Kirchner were also seized.
The suspect, who was taken into custody, is expected to testify today. For now, he’s under investigation for attempted murder.
Who is the Brazilian trying to kill Cristina Kirchner?
According to the newspaper La Nación, the man introduced himself on social media as “Fernando Salim Montiel” – the accounts were deleted after the attack. According to the publication, he was interested in and followed many pages that were radicalized or linked to hate groups.
Montiel liked pages like “Satanic Communism,” “The Antipsychopathic Coach,” and other profiles that refer to Wicca, a pagan religion devoted to the knowledge of spirituality from nature and the human spirit and linking to witchcraft and other ancient religions.
According to commercial records cited by local media, Fernando is authorized to act as an app driver in the country.
In March 2021, he was stopped by the police for driving without a license plate in the La Paternal district where he will reside. While getting out of the car, the 35-centimeter knife fell to the ground. He claimed to the police that he carried the gun in self-defense and that the vehicle had no license plate due to a traffic accident that occurred days ago. He was accused of carrying an unusual weapon and the knife was confiscated.
The Black Sun tattoo, a very popular symbol among neo-Nazis, draws attention in the photos of the attacker circulating on the Internet. In the caption of one of the photos posted on Instagram, she states that she got a swastika tattoo, a symbol also favored by the Nazis (the swastika).
source: Noticias
