The analysis of the security cameras at the scene of the attack opens a hypothesis that had been ruled out
The aggressor’s phone has been reset and all the information inside it can be lost
Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, the young man who aimed at the head of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and twice failed his assassination attempt, is no longer considered just a “wolf on the loose“, as defined by the head of the intelligence service, Agustín Rossi. Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti suspects at this time that the aggressor would not have acted alone after analyzing the images from the different cameras that recorded the episode that shook Argentina last Thursday. By virtue of this presumption, the magistrate imposed the secrecy of the proceedings in the case. But before that happened, Brenda Uliarte, Sabag Montiel’s partner, has been arrested.
However, Capuchetti faces from this Sunday a stumbling block as unthinkable as it is controversial. The Airport Security Police (PSA) informed you that the attacker’s phone was reset and it is very possible that key evidence for the investigation will be lost. “We are going to enter into the lawsuit with a technician to try to analyze whether that data can be recovered,” said Gregorio Dalbón, the vice president’s lawyer. “Everyone who touched the cell phone will have consequences“said the lawyer and considered it “very rare” that an event of such magnitude has been approached “with so little care”. According to Dalbón, if key information could not be recovered from the phone, “those who were in the preliminary investigation of Justice” should be accused of “breach of duty as a public official.” In that sense, he added: “The responsibility of the judge is very seriousthe prosecutor and those who manipulated the accused’s cell phone”.
Fernández de Kirchner has called for silence, even after the mobilization in his favor last Friday, when thousands of people took to the streets both in the city of Buenos Aires and in the main cities of the Argentine interior.
Continue the dispute
In this context, the dispute between the Peronist government and part of the right-wing opposition continues. While the ruling party blames it for fueling the fire of discord, it maintains that the Executive seeks to politically capitalize on the attack to attack critical media outlets.
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The impact caused by the assassination attempt has not completely silenced some high-sounding voices. “I am not happy, happy is an important word; I am satisfied with the fact that they have not killed you because the cavemen who follow you would have erected you as a martyr,” said the priest from the province of Santa Faith, Juan Pablo Esquivel, and spoke of a “attack simulacrum”.
“And you are not a martyr, you are a corrupt person who is being judged. A prosecutor whom you did not kill, thank God, has convicted you or you are going down that path,” he said, referring to the request for 12 years in prison and Perpetual disqualification that prosecutor Diego Luciani has formulated in a case that Kirchnerism considers lacking in evidence and that has the sole purpose of proscribing the vice president for the 2023 elections.