The investigated assured in public that she had not seen her partner in the two days prior to the attack, but they were recorded together that day
The Federal Police of Argentina arrested on Sunday night – early Monday in Spain – Brenda Uliarte, the girlfriend of Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, the gunman who last Thursday tried to kill the country’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner . She was transferred to the same center where her boyfriend is being held, waiting to be brought to justice.
The operation was carried out at a train station in Buenos Aires by order of the judge in charge of the case, María Eugenia Capuchetti, after determining that Uliarte was with Montiel at the scene of the events. Justice works with the hypothesis that the gunman did not act alone.
There are several doubts about the role played by Uliarte. The 23-year-old lied when last Friday, a day after the incident, she declared on local television that she had not seen her boyfriend in the last two days. The security cameras have dismantled her alibi. They were recorded taking public transport the same day of the assassination attempt. But not only that. An analysis of the cameras that surround Kirchner’s home has allowed the Justice to determine that both were together at the moment in which Montiel pulled the trigger of his pistol twice a few centimeters from the vice president’s face.
Hours before being arrested, ‘Ámbar’, as the young woman is also known for being the alias she used on social networks, made a live broadcast on her Instagram account. Before an audience of just 30 people, she stated that “there is no reconciliation with the corrupt. No, guys. Enough of corruption, whoever it is, from any political side. Enough of the corruption. From any country, wherever. Enough of corruption.
He also questioned the authenticity of the pistol used by Sabag Montiel, a 32-caliber Bersa. “Perhaps it was a water pistol. Who knows? », He stated, in relation to the liquid that came out of the tip of the weapon, as can be seen in the videos of the incident. Some experts contend that it could be lubricant from the gun failing when fired. “They changed his gun for a real one and now this bard eats,” he says, answering a question put to him by one of his followers during the broadcast. What is clear is that the statements cast new doubts on his role in the assassination attempt.
Uliarte, at the time of his arrest /
Last Friday, the young woman had granted an interview to the television channel ‘Telefe’. In it, she denied any relationship with the attack, assured that she did not know that in the house where she lived with Sabag Montiel there was a hidden box with bullets and even denied being her girlfriend, although she did admit that they had been living together for a month.
“He was a cool person, who makes jokes, loving, a good person, I had not thought that he would be capable of something like that,” he said about his boyfriend. “He complained about the economy, about the rise in the dollar but as one more, not aggressively.” In any case, “Ámbar” said she was “shocked” by what happened and she denounced threats on social networks.
summary secrecy
Judge Capuchetti decreed the secrecy of the summary on Sunday afternoon, after taking a statement from a friend of the 35-year-old Brazilian, the author of the attack, who claimed to believe him “capable of committing the act.” The judge also questioned the Police technicians who blocked the cell phone of the person being investigated while trying to extract information from it. As reported by various local media, the message “factory reset phone” appeared on the device screen, so that Justice could have lost a key piece of evidence.
The judge had great hopes in the information that the experts could extract from the device, since it could be determined if the aggressor acted alone or as part of an organization. In addition, it would allow the accused’s movements to be reconstructed the days prior to the moment in which he fired his pistol twice against Kirchner without being able to shoot because there was no bullet in the chamber.
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