From New York
“Follow the money, follow the twine”, responds the security minister Hannibal Fernandez when asked about the course of the investigation into the attempted assassination of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. There are thirty minutes left before the plane that takes the presidential delegation lands in New York and Aníbal Fernández answers questions. He has an agenda aside from accompanying the president on his tour of new yorkbut the talk focuses on the attack on the vice president: why the security did not withdraw at the time, if there was a follow-up in previous violent events such as the march of the torches, what lines the investigation follows.
“It’s much easier when you conquer where the money is. By following the money we can find something important, we don’t know it yet. The presumption is that the drink business does not give what it is armed for,” Fernández insists. In this sense, on the line that links a financing of the Caputo Group to the grouping federal revolutionthe minister assures that “it is an element that Justice has to evaluate. As a loose expression in itself it is very dense. But until Justice says something, I can’t say anything myself. We have to wait.”
Going back a little over two weeks to that night when Fernando Sabag Montiel fired a loaded gun with five bullets in the face of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her security did not immediately remove her from the place, the Minister of Security takes out his cell phone, looks for a chat, covers the name of the sender with his left thumb and describes it: “Here you can see perfectly well that the vice president is there and she has four police officers around her, as if it were the five on the dice. Given the uncertainty of the moment, because I have spoken with many who were there and nobody understood what was happening, they told her to leave. expression of force was to get her out of that placeThat is in Cristina’s statements.”
And going a little further back to the March of the Torches that invited to persecute politicians and journalists who were complicit in the return of Kirchnerism. Didn’t you miss a follow up?
– Who told you there was no follow-up? But the truth is that intelligence cannot be done if there is no crime. So what you do is criminal intelligence. The March of the Torches we detected long before it happened. The City Police should have acted, they did not act quickly and the instruction we gave was that we use the hydrants. And you can see from the video, we used the fire hydrants and put those torches out. We are not to hit. We are not to attack. We order it differently.
Collaboration with the United States
In addition to accompanying the President, Aníbal Fernández has his own agenda in New York. On Monday he will meet with the New York police, the INL, which is the drug justice arm, and with the FBI. He will not talk about the assassination attempt in the meetings: “We do not have to ask for collaboration, because we work on everything. It is not necessary for us to talk about one thing. We talk about everything as many times as we need. We managed to do a very good job together,” the minister answered.
When asked specifically about the lost data from Fernando Sabag Montiel’s cell phone, which the United States has the technology to decrypt, he assures that “this has already been consulted and we have offers to check it, but it has to be the Court that advances” .
The presidential delegation arrived this morning in the United States, made up of Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero, the Secretary General of the Presidency Julio Vitobello, the presidential spokesperson Gabriela Cerruti and his wife Fabiola Yañez, was received this morning by Ambassador Jorge Argüello, the Consul General in New York, Santiago Villalba and the Ambassador to the United Nations United, Maria del Carmen Squeff. At the United Nations, the Argentine head of state will condemn the attack against CFK and will promote the candidacy of the former ESMA as world heritage. He will also visit Houston, the epicenter of business and energy.