Attack on Cristina Kirchner: photos suggest premeditated plan, says investigation

cell phone pictures of Fernando Sabag Montiel and his girlfriend Brenda Uliarteposing with the 32-caliber Bersa Thunder weapon, taken months ago, suggest that there was a premeditated plan to attack Cristina Kirchner with that pistol and that the girl lied when she said she had no knowledge of the existence of the weapon, sources from the investigation.

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The photos are from the memory card of Sabag Montiel’s cell phone, which was not affected when the phone was reset to the factory, when it was manipulated to extract the data from the device. In one of the images, Brenda Uliarte is seen posing standing up, with the pistol at her waist, and in another, Sabag Montiel places the weapon near her face.

There is also a photograph from last May in which the two boxes of bullets that were seized from the shooter’s houseLA NACIÓN (Argentina) learned from research sources.

Investigators believe that there is a small organization behind these two people who instigated the attack on the vice president. They do not speak of a plot, but of other people who may have urged the couple to act. Sources in the case said that there are images from days prior to last Thursday’s attack that placed Sabag Montiel and Uliarte in the vicinity of Cristina Kirchner’s house in Juncal and Uruguay.

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