The Argentine Football Association announced this Friday the suspension of all matches scheduled for the day and expressed “a strong rejection of what happened to the vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.”
“We call on society as a whole, warning that violence of any kind is never the way to go,” reads the association’s post on the social network Twitter.
The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, said that the vice president, Cristina Kirchner, was the target of an assassination attempt this Thursday, which only failed because the firearm did not fire.
Supporters of the vice president have been gathering in the streets surrounding her home in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, since last week, when a prosecutor requested a 12-year sentence for Kirchner, as well as lifelong disqualification from holding office. in charge. context of a case of alleged corruption in public works when he was president of Argentina (2007-2015).
The man, whose identity has not been officially revealed by the authorities, was arrested seconds after the incident.
The state news agency Télam identified him as a Brazilian citizen.
Tensions have been rising in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires since the weekend, when supporters of the vice president clashed with police in the streets outside her apartment after security forces tried to demobilize protesters.
Despite open questions, government officials were quick to describe Thursday’s incident as an assassination attempt.
Source: TSF
