The judicial investigation into the attack on the Argentine vice-president, Cristina Fernández, detected that the main suspects would have tried to attack the former president (2007-2015) a few days before, specifically on August 27, local media reported this Monday.
The information comes from a set of messages taken from the phone of Brenda Uliarte, accused in this case and girlfriend of the main suspect, Fernando Sabag Montiel, who on September 1 tried to shoot the vice president when she greeted her supporters in front of her living place.
According to judicial sources cited by local media, the couple would have tried to attack Cristina Fernández on August 27, as part of a protest over the installation of fences around the former president’s home.
After several hours of tension in the streets, with riots between demonstrators and police in the city of Buenos Aires, Fernández made a public appearance to thank his followers for their support, urging them to demobilize from the place.
It was then that Sabag Montiel allegedly tried to attack the vice president, according to the messages he sent to Uliarte that same night.
“No, it’s not that he realizes, the issue is that there is a security camera. C5Nand there are few people, and people are leaving, and the moment is that, now it’s late, that is, it’s 12 o’clock and she left at that time, and it was at that time, that is, the stage was with her because they will have followed her”, wrote Sabag Montiel in a first message.
“No, he already got inside and they took him out of the stage. I touched Axel Kicillof (governor of the province of Buenos Aires) on the back and he got into a Toyota Etios and left, a mess. She’s upstairs but I don’t think she’ll come out so she’s gone, she leaves, I’m going there, stay there. Do not bring anything, ”he added in a second communication.
These revelations coincide with the images released days ago by local media, showing a cart with cotton candy, presumably owned by Uliarte, in the vicinity of Cristina Fernández’s home on August 23 and 27.
According to information published in local media, the investigators found other messages on Uliarte’s phone, in which the suspect proposed to “generate facts, not protests”, stressed the need to “take action” and urged to put cocktails molotov in the Casa Rosada, seat of the national Executive.
After the detection of these messages, the federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti, in charge of the investigation, has restored the secrecy of the summary, according to local media.
