Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti ordered this Thursday (15) the preventive detention of Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel and his girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, due to the attack on Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner.
The Brazilian was accused of attempted murder and Uliarte of having planned the action. The magistrate signed a bond worth 100 million Argentine pesos each (R$ 3.6 million), citing as aggravating factors the use of a firearm, treason and the premeditation of the attack.
According to the Argentine press, possession of weapons and ammunition without authorization were also cited as crimes.
On the last day 7 Capuchetti had already formalized the charges of attempted murder and premeditation “in common agreement”. Thursday’s decision expands the allegations against the two main defendants. In addition to them, two more people have already been detained: Agustina Díaz, 21, a friend of the aggressor’s girlfriend, and Gabriel Carrizo, who would own a cotton candy cart that was seen the nights before the crime on the corner of Cristina’s house.
This Wednesday (14), with the testimony of Díaz and the arrest of Carrizo, the investigation gained new chapters that redirected the central line of investigation. Brenda Uliarte’s friend confirmed the veracity of messages exchanged with Sabag’s girlfriend that point to the possibility that she was the mastermind of the crime.
In one of them, Uliarte says: “Today I will become San Martín [herói da independência argentina], I will have Cristina killed. I got tired that we just talk and talk and do nothing. I, yes, will. The spirit of San Martín has entered my body.”
On the night of the 1st, Sabag approached less than a meter from the vice president, who was greeting supporters as she arrived home, and pointed a gun at her face. The attack was unsuccessful as both attempts to fire failed, although the Bersa 32 caliber was loaded with five bullets.
In the days following the action, the question arose about whether or not the man knew how to handle the pistol, but a video released last Sunday (11), which was on the memory card of his cell phone, shows him handling the weapon, loading the bullets. and simulating the shots.
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