While the federal Justice investigates the attack once morest Cristina Kirchner With a low profile and marked secrecy, the Government came out today to install the theory of “lonely wolf” to characterize the attacker of the vice president. She did it through the head of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Agustín Rossiwho thus defined Fernando Andres Sabag Montielthe man who unsuccessfully triggered the head of the vice president. Thus, he avoided other hypotheses that investigate the contacts of the detained man.
“Everything indicates that we are facing a lone wolf”, remarked Rossi, who officiates as a political spokesman for the government, despite the fact that his functional responsibility is to direct the intelligence center. As far as he might tell THE NATIONthat discursive line is not out of focus from what they think in the Ministry of Security. “Everything points there”slipped from the portfolio led by Aníbal Fernández, under whose orbit is the Federal police collaborating in the investigation of the judge Maria Eugenia Capuchetti and the prosecutor Carlos Rivolo.
The official sources consulted affirmed that Rossi and the Ministry of Security support the “lone wolf” theory because it is “what’s up so far”, although they warned that “we must wait” for the derivations of the ongoing investigation. However, the head of the AFI anticipated this Saturday with definitions that mark a forceful line. And he commented that “The AFI never had this man called Brazilian under the radar, but he arrived in Argentina when he was 5 years old and -as he stated- he is as Argentine as us”.
Speaking to the Toma y Daca program, which is broadcast on AM 750 radio, Rossi said that the attacker did not carry out the assassination of Cristina Kirchner because “the weapon he used failed, a pistola Bersa 32 that, according to the first tests, he had five bullets in the magazine but none in the chamber. In addition, the Santafesino leader – who was previously Minister of Defense both in the administration of Alberto Fernández and Cristina herself – said that it is “hasty to blame custody” of the vice president for failing in her role.
However, the political advocacy de Rossi on the custody of Cristina is not enough to explain the reasons why he did not act, what in security jargon is called “zero man”, which should have come between the attacker and the vice president. Nor did the context in which the attack occurred seem to reveal the existence of a “escape route” Nor was there a reaction from the custody agents, who remained accompanying the head of the Senate for six minutes while she greeted the militants.
In any case, Rossi recognized that in Argentina, the political leaders have “security operations relaxed”, especially when they want to “have contact with people”, as happened in recent weeks with Cristina Kirchner both at the door of her apartment in Recoleta and in the Senate. “Perhaps, from now on, the main leaders of the country, both from the ruling party and from the opposition, would have to see the security operation and take a greater number of precautions; from now on it should be like this”.
“It is hasty to blame Cristina’s custody, it does not seem to me that the operation has failed,” insisted the head of the AFI, whose position is known in the world of spies as “Lord 5”. It is not the first time that Rossi appeals to political definitions that contradict the traditional style of Argentine intelligence. He had already done it with the case of the Iranian-Venezuelan plane held at the Ezeiza airport, when he also went out to install the hypothesis that the Iranian crew members were “instructors” of the Venezuelans and not intelligence agents.
In this scenario, dominated by the commotion caused by the assassination attempt once morest the vice president, Rossi still asked that “Justice be given time” so that it can develop all the lines of investigation. However, he claimed that “A priori, we are in the presence of a person who acted alone, what in the jargon of intelligence and security is called a lone wolf”. In this way, the head of the AFI and trusted man of President Fernández marked the discursive line of the Government in this delicate matter.