Buenos Aires, September 2 (EFE) – María Eugenia Capuchetti, the federal judge in charge of investigating the assassination attempt on Argentina’s vice-president, Cristina Kirchner, went to her political residence this Friday to take her testimony regarding the outrage.
The judge of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 5 arrived at Cristina’s home at around 11:00 am (local and Brazilian time) and stayed there for about an hour after inspecting the area in the morning.
Judges and prosecutors in charge of the case also listened to testimony from witnesses to the attack, such as a man who helped intercept the attacker, before heading to the residence of the former president and current vice president.
According to police sources Agência Efe consulted, a group of federal police officers searched the home of an attempted murder suspect Thursday night.
Argentine authorities determined that the arrested man was Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, a 35-year-old Brazilian. Born in São Paulo, the son of an Argentine and a Chilean, he has lived in Argentina since the 1990s and has a criminal record for carrying unconventional weapons.
The attack took place yesterday in front of Cristina’s home in the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires. In the midst of a crowd welcoming the vice president outside the residence, Montiel pointed a pistol at the vice president’s face, but there was no fire—the gun would have missed, according to police.
Argentina is experiencing a period of high political tension and Cristina Kirchner is subject to an arrest warrant by the Public Ministry in the context of a case in which she is accused of granting public works concessions during her tenure as president (2007). – 2015).
Since then, groups for and against the former president and current vice president have demonstrated on the streets of Buenos Aires.
In a statement after the attack, Alberto Fernández said he considered the attack the “most serious event” since Argentina’s return to democracy in 1983 and declared a holiday this Friday so that the country’s citizens could express their “peaceful” rejection. from violence.
source: Noticias
