One hundred projectiles were seized this Friday at the home of the person responsible for the attack against the Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sources from the Argentine Ministry of Security confirmed to the EFE agency.
The Federal Police found these ammunition during the search of the house of the suspect, who lives in the municipality of San Martín, located in the Argentine capital.
The agents had already carried out another intervention in a house related to the detainee, in the Villa del Parque neighborhood, in Buenos Aires.
On Thursday night, the suspect was arrested after pointing a gun at the vice president and firing twice, but the gun ended up misfiring, just as Cristina Kirchner arrived at the house, where her supporters were waiting for her.
After the attack, the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, made a statement on national television to repudiate the event and declare a holiday today, so that citizens can express themselves against violence in the streets.
The president of Argentina claimed that the vice president was the target of an assassination attempt, which only failed because the firearm did not fire.
The man, arrested on time, “pointed a gun at his head and pulled the trigger,” said the President, on the national broadcast.
The detainee, a 35-year-old man of Brazilian nationality, has no criminal record in his country of origin, according to the Argentine Ministry of Security.
The weapon seized from the suspect is a 32-caliber Bersa automatic pistol, which at its base has a partial number of 250, suitable for firing, according to the same sources.
The judge in charge of the investigation, María Eugenia Capuchetti, visited the vice president’s house on Friday to take her statement.
Alberto Fernández was also at Cristina Kirchner’s house, as a gesture of support after the attack suffered on Thursday by the vice president.
Fernández also led a government meeting to examine “the state of social unrest” after the attack and, in a statement, called for the mobilization of all citizens.
Supporters of the vice president have been gathering in the streets around her house since last week, after a prosecutor called for a 12-year sentence for Kirchner in a case of alleged corruption related to public works.
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.
Source: TSF
