The Argentine Justice prosecutes the two main suspects of the attack for “attempted qualified homicide”
Having a gun pointed at your head is quite a shock. Even more so if it’s loaded. This is what Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, had to suffer at the beginning of the month. Two weeks after the attack on her person, for which four people have already been arrested, the politician reappears in public and claims to be “alive for God and the Virgin.”
His first statements since the traumatic event took place this Friday during a meeting in the Senate in which a group of priests was present. “If she had to thank God and the Virgin, she had to do it surrounded by priests for the poor, village priests, lay and religious sisters,” he pointed out after asking the population to “pray” for her.
The two video images show how the aggressor points his pistol at Kirchner, a few meters from his face. /
It is not his first approach to the church since the attack. Pope Francis spoke with Kirchner after the assassination attempt and told him that “acts of hate and violence are always preceded by words and verbs of hate and violence.” And in this case the Pontiff is not mistaken. The vice president, who has been criticized everywhere and who is accused of alleged crimes of corruption, denounced that “there have always been groups, small, but with great power, who want to suppress, eliminate those who think differently.”
For this reason, he defended before the Senate, “we have the obligation to return to a path that cost a lot in Argentina.” In this sense, he stressed that returning to democracy does not mean voting again, but “recovering life and the rationality that can be discussed in politics.”
Garnishment
Meanwhile, the Justice has announced this Friday the prosecution for “attempted qualified homicide” of the two main suspects in the attack with Kirchner: Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel and his partner, Brenda Uliarte. The judge in charge of the case, María Eugenia Capuchetti, has described them as “co-authors” of the crime and has seized assets worth 100 million Argentine pesos (about 698,571 euros) each.
The resolution does not affect the other two detainees, Agustina Díaz and Nicolás Carrizo, accused of having collaborated with Uliarte in planning the attack.
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