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Brenda Uliarte, 23, was captured on the day of the events by the security cameras located near the vice president’s apartment.
“Attempted assassination with prior planning and agreement”.
Argentine judge María Eugenia Capuchetti formally charged Fernando Sabag Montiel and his girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, for last Thursday’s attack on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The news was known this Wednesday from judicial sources, while the case remains under summary secrecy.
The charges are preliminary and can still be changed, but they assume the first official accusation that the attack against Fernández de Kirchner was premeditated.
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Sabag Montiel was arrested shortly after the frustrated attack, while his 23-year-old girlfriend was arrested on Sunday, after searching the residence she had with the man involved, who is of Brazilian origin and is 35 years old.
According to Judge Capuchetti, in expressions collected by local media, the woman was also outside Fernández de Kirchner’s apartment when the “attempted assassination” took place.
The Clarín newspaper reported that authorities in the South American country interviewed Uliarte on Tuesday, but she denied any involvement in what happened.
At the meeting they read the accusation to him and detailed that, in addition to “planning” the attack, it was determined that “they had held the seized firearm with its ammunition since the date before the event, at least since August 5, 2021.”
Uliarte told the authorities that he had not had contact with Sabag Montiel since 48 hours before the attack, when his partner pointed a loaded weapon at Fernandez de Kirchner that did not detonate, in the midst of a massive activity in support of his besieged figure. for a judicial accusation of corruption.
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The events occurred when Fernández greeted a crowd that was waiting for her this Thursday at the gates of her house in the Recoleta neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
But, according to the AFP agency, there are videos from security cameras that show her in the company of Sabag Montiel on the day of the events.
other crimes
Both are also accused of having “stocked two boxes of ammunition”each of 50 automatic 32 caliber cartridges, continues Clarín.
This evidence was obtained by police when they searched the couple’s apartment on Friday.
The newspaper also reported that they are accused of having “falsified” disability certificates approved by the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health.
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