Buenos Aires (EFE)
Federal prosecutor Carlos Rivolo confirmed to EFE that he had concluded the investigation stage and asked the judge in the case, María Eugenia Capuchetti, to go to trial.
The main detainee is Fernando Sabag Montiel, accused of being the one who shot the vice president in the face with a pistol that did not go off.
Also detained are his girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, as the alleged co-perpetrator of the crime of homicide, and Nicolás Carrizo, from whose mobile phone several communications related to the attack allegedly came out and who is considered a secondary participant.
Cristina Fernández’s constant criticism of Justice
The failed attack was perpetrated when Sabag Montiel, a then-35-year-old Brazilian, approached Fernández as he greeted supporters outside his home in Buenos Aires, who were showing their support a few days after a prosecutor launched a harsh allegation against him. she in the trial in which she was accused of corruption crimes during her time as president (2007-2015).
Since then, the vice president, who ended up receiving a sentence last December to six years in prison and perpetual political disqualification -sentence that is not yet final-, has reiterated her criticism of Justice, which she accuses of persecuting her in order to outlaw it and incite political violence.
Bullrich, also on stage
In addition, earlier this month, Fernández cried out against the alleged “cover-up” of the attack, and targeted Patricia Bullrich, a presidential candidate for the country’s main opposition coalition.
On Twitter, the former president referred to a story published by the Argentine newspaper Página 12 that revealed that a key witness in the case was pressured to delete the data from her mobile phone in offices related to Bullrich.
According to this information, the witness, a former adviser to opposition legislator Gerardo Milman, testified before the Court that she did not empty the phone “of her own free will, but rather was taken to the offices of Patricia Bullrich, where an expert removed the contents of her device, that of another adviser and that of Milman himself.
According to the newspaper, the witness was with Milman in a bar when another congressional official heard him say “when they kill her, I’m on my way to the coast,” just two days before the attack.
“It is very impressive not only the naturalization of political violence against me, but also the cover-up of the assassination attempt that occurred on September 1,” said Fernández.
Bullrich, who was Minister of Security during the Government of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), spoke shortly after: “They no longer know what to invent in the face of the total and utter failure of their pathetic co-government. With me, on December 10, Kirchnerism ends,” the politician remarked.