The Argentine vice-president had been targeted, however, Thursday, September 1, by a pistol but no blow had left. His lawyer is convinced that the author of the missed attack, which was arrested on the spot, “did not act alone”.
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The Argentine police arrested and placed in police custody, Sunday September 4 in the evening in Buenos Aires, the companion of the man who attacked, Thursday, the vice-president of the country Cristina Kirchner.
According to judicial sources cited by several Argentinian media, -including the official Telam -Brenda Uliarte agency was arrested in a station in the Palermo district, on the mandate of the magistrate co -charged with the investigation into the attempt of attack.
The 23 -year -old woman had been interviewed in the days following the attack by televisions evoking the suspect, his friend Fernando André Sabag Montiel who was arrested on the spot. She had expressed her surprise and said that she would never have thought the latter capable of such an act, and that if he complained “like everyone” of the economy, he had never mentioned vice -Mirchner “with aggressiveness”.
She had also declared that she had not seen her since 48 hours before the facts. Video surveillance image analyzes would in fact have shown that she had been in his company on the day of the attack, the 1 er September, according to sources close to the investigation cited by the media .
“preparatory events”
Thursday evening, when M Kirchner mingled with supporters in front of her home, a man had approached her and had pointed a pistol towards her head, at close range. For an unknown reason, no one left while the weapon, loaded, was actually active, assured shortly after President Alberto Fernandez.
The 35 -year -old attacker is of Brazilian nationality, but he has lived in Argentina since childhood. The man, with motivations at this unknown stage, has not made a statement since his arrest. In photos of his Instagram account, he appeared with many tattoos, some of which (a black sun, a cross resembling the iron cross) associated with a Nazi symbolism.
Sunday, one of the lawyers of Cristina Kirchner had estimated that he “did not act alone because there were preparatory events for the assassination attempt”.
“There were other people who were aware of this situation, without a doubt,” said M e Gregorio Dalbon on C5N television, without advancing supporting elements This thesis. “In my opinion, there will be more [accused] because I understand that he did not act alone,” he insisted.
However, he speculated that other people involved “are not public figures, they are like this boy”, appearing to discredit the thesis of a large plot.
“Marginal”
Gregorio Dalbon also said that he would ask that “be heard to explain his words” a certain “Mario”. Shortly after the attack, this Mario had declared to a television being friends of the suspect since adolescence, had described him as a “marginal”, a little lost since the death of his mother, and said he was “convinced that His intention was to kill “M Me Kirchner. He had also said that he did not see the suspect for ten months, when he sought to get a weapon.
The lawyer also confirmed that a complaint would be formally filed Monday in the name of M me Kirchner, so that as a civil party she has access to the file, and can follow the results , suggest clues, experts, or “call upon resolutions that would harm him”.
The attack on M Me Kirchner, 69, figurehead of the peronist left, and always influential in the country’s policy seven years after his departure from the presidency, gave rise to Demonstrations bringing together tens of thousands of people in a shock country, and a wave of international convictions