A woman was arrested on Tuesday, bringing the number of people detained in the failed Sept. 1 attack on Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Kirchner to three, judicial sources said.
The detainee, whose identity has not been released, is a friend of Brenda Uliarte, the 23-year-old who is suspected of firing the gun at Kirchner with her boyfriend Fernando Sabag Montiel, 35, but the shot did not fire. , according to the agency’s official news report Telam.
Sabag Montiel was arrested the same night as the attack, shortly after he twice pulled the trigger on a gun just inches from Kirchner’s head outside his home in Buenos Aires.
The new arrest took place at a house in San Miguel, on the western outskirts of Buenos Aires, after a series of police raids.
The woman is the person with whom Uliarte had telephone contact after the attack, the same sources said.
Sabag Montiel managed to reach Kirchner and camouflaged himself among the people who showed their support for the former president who was charged in a trial for alleged corruption.
Uliarte was also on the scene and left after her boyfriend’s arrest, according to CCTV footage, three days later.
According to the investigation on the mobile phones of the suspects, they had already tried to attack Kirchner on August 27, but that plan was aborted, local media report.
Sabag Montiel’s mobile phone shows the two with the Bersa 32 pistol used to commit the attack.
Sabag Montiel refused to answer the judge’s questions during the two investigative sessions, limiting himself to waiving Uliarte’s responsibility.
The detainee was described as a mythomaniac, with a marginal life, tattoos of Nazi symbols, but no known political activism, although with critical reports of the government of Alberto Fernández and Kirchner. He and his girlfriend sold cotton candy on public walks.
Security Minister Aníbal Fernández reported Tuesday that Kirchner’s security was being strengthened after a death threat. “Yesterday (Monday) there was a message from the emergency service. It seems like small things, but they are not small things, seriously, everything needs to be investigated,” said Fernández.
The minister, who contacted Kirchner to inform her about the matter, said the vice president is “not afraid”. “Cristina is a very strong woman in these things,” he underlined.
Source: DN
