The former director of the SIDE Miguel Angel Tomas He gave his opinion tonight regarding the attack on Vice President Cristina Kirchner and analyzed from his experience how the situation was handled by security. In addition, he recalled a precedent that occurred during the investigation following the death of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman in which also Federal Police committed a error during the expertise of a cell phone.
“The behavior of the custody is very striking, it is very difficult to prevent or foresee the action of aggression. We have examples: Ronald Reagan They shot him six times, violating the United States secret service, an elite force. The same thing happened to Jair Bolsonaro, who was stabbed. Now, immediately that the event occurs, there is a protocol that has to be applied, which is to cover the body of the person attacked. If this is not possible, they must immediately remove it from the scene, regardless of the will of the victim or temperament. [En el ataque a Cristina Kirchner] Neither of these two things happened, what’s more, they left her for almost six minutes at the scene. This is very serious. There might be an explosive that would end the operation if they really wanted to kill her,” Toma began.
Invited to Business community, the program hosted by José Del Rio, on LN+, the former director of the SIDE maintained that “the fact that there has not been a bullet in the chamber, as the primary expert opinion that has been done says, might indicate that what was sought was to generate the noise that an assassination attempt implies.”
He also referred to the loss of data from the cell phone of the attacker, Sabag Montiel, which was found “factory reset”. “I am concerned regarding some background information regarding the skills. I want to remember that when Alberto Nisman was assassinated there was a telephone survey that originally said that Nisman had called Lagomarsino. It had been the other way around. It was established in a second expertise that it was Lagomarsino who called Nisman and that ruined the entire operation to cover up Lagomarsino’s responsibility, from which he is prosecuted, ”he stated.
A division of the PFA tried to unlock the Samsung cell phone that was seized from Sabag Montiel, using the UFED software, in the courts of Comodoro Py. After a series of unsuccessful attempts, while the phone was connected to a tool that the PFA technician took to Comodoro Py, it was not possible to overcome the cell phone’s lock. That is why the court then asked the Airport Security Police (PSA), who reported having more modern software to unlock cell phones on occasions like this, but upon receipt they said it was formatted.
“Here there have been a first reading of the cell phone by the Federal Police who said error. Also, the first expertise on Nisman was made by the Federal Police. When he arrives at the Airport Security Police, which does have a more sophisticated system, he says: ‘They’ve emptied it.’ I think this is what is determining that the judge with good judgment is thinking of asking foreign agencies if they can get into the phone, because just like the laptop they found in the raid, they are two central instruments to establish the sociogram of communication”, Tom said.
On the latest news regarding the attack on the vice president, where it was learned that Sabag Montiel’s partner, Brenda Uliarte, was arrested The former official considered: “I think it is important for the purpose of the investigation that this woman has been detained and that her cell phone be quickly removed. It is very probable that from establishing the contacts that she has made part of what might not be originally removed from Sabag’s cell phone can be reconstructed “.
Also, he pointed out that a psychological expertise should be carried out on the attacker to find out if he acted in knowledge of his actions or not. “They have to do a psychological expertise for the purposes of the investigation. The second question that I think is very important is weapon expertise. Looks like he has no fingerprints. If that is confirmed and there are no traces on the bullets, it is enough to think that there is a intention to cover up those responsible for using the weapon”.
Lastly, he maintained that it is essential to establish whether the weapon being inspected is indeed the one used in the attack. “You see a weapon that is much larger in size than the Bersa that appears on the floor. It seems to me that this is something that needs to be added. This is a strange character, because they found several other things on him, such as a certificate of disability issued by the Municipality of Quilmes (there are suspicions that it would not be legitimate) and a birth certificate that is not known if it is authentic or false and a photocopy . All these elements have to be very well evaluated”, he concluded.