A week after the attack against the Argentine vice president, Cristina Kirchner, the country continues to be shaken by the assassination attempt on the political leader.
The events occurred last Thursday, September 1, when Kirchner arrived at his residence, in which hundreds of supporters gathered to express their support after the request for prison against him made by the prosecution.
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As Kirchner approached those present, an armed individual approached her and tried to shoot her in the face, but the gun did not fire.
Now in recent days images have been released that try to show that the attacker, identified as Fernando Sabag Montiel, was present at other events hugging and kissing the vice president.
The images spread on social networks show who Sabag Montiel would be posing in photos with the vice president and hugging her at an event that took place in 2016.
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Cristina in one of her campaigns receiving hugs and kisses, including those from who now appears as her “frustrated murderer.” Here it can be seen. pic.twitter.com/mczeNuecRx
– Carlos Ramirez Lopez (@carlosramirezl3) September 8, 2022
However, this version has already been denied. The person who appears in the photos showing a closeness with Vice President Cristina Kirchner is actually Ignacio Barbieri, a Peronist militant who has been active in the party by endorsing the vice president.
Barbieri himself was in charge of denying the versions that the attacker is the one who appears in the photos and affirmed that it is him.
“They are using images of me to say that I am ‘the Brazilian’ (the attacker),” he said on his Twitter account.
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I have more than 3400 notifications because some trolls from @mauriciomacri @PatoBullrich @horaciorlarreta and company are using images of me to say that I am “the Brazilian”.
Not only are they gorillas, but they don’t use half a neuron and I have no resemblance…– Ignacio Barbieri (@NachoCaiPm) September 4, 2022
After being confused with Fernando Sabag Montiel, the vice president’s attacker, Barbieri affirmed that he will take legal action for slander and affirmed that the photos were not spread by mistake on the internet, but that they sought to “generate hatred and anger.”
What happened to the real attacker?
According to the imputation of justice, released this Wednesday, the failed attack against the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, was the product of “previous planning and agreement” between the attacker and his girlfriend.
Fernando Sabag Montiel and his girlfriend Brenda Uliarte were accused of “having tried to kill Cristina Kirchner, counting for it with the planning and prior agreement between both”, says the record of imputation of the judge María Eugenia Capuchetti, disclosed by several means, among them the official Télam agency.
(Keep reading: Argentina manifests itself repudiating the failed attack against Cristina Kirchner)
The 35-year-old assailant, who has Nazi symbols tattooed on his skin, and his 23-year-old girlfriend are the only ones arrested so far, accused of the attempted murder of the former president (2007-2015).
Justice also has five friends of the two detainees under scrutiny, all cotton candy street vendors, to determine if they had a role in the event. They all testified as witnesses but had to hand over their cell phones.
Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel is the one who pointed a gun at Cristina Fernández.
Social Networks Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel
The judge’s indictment is provisional since she has ten days from the preliminary statement to resolve whether to prosecute or dismiss the defendants.
On Tuesday, Montiel was called to expand his preliminary statement from Friday, but at both hearings he refused to testify; he would only have said that his girlfriend “had nothing to do” with the attempted murder or with the planning, according to judicial sources.
On her side, Uliarte, whose image was recorded on the security cameras near the scene at the time of the attack, said that she only went to accompany her boyfriend.
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