The man crossed the circle of people surrounding the vice president and managed to point a gun at her head.
The tension escalates even more in Argentina. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was the subject of a attempted attack against him. A Brazilian citizen, nationalized Argentine, circumvented the circle of people who guarded and surrounded the vice president and arrived to point a gun at his head. The television showed a scene that does not recognize precedents in this country: the attacker tried to pull the trigger of the revolver but the shot did not come out. The noise was clearly heard on the recordings.
The episode has caused national and regional commotion. Several Latin American presidents and leaders condemned the act. “We condemn the cowardly assassination attempt against our sister @CFKArgentina. All our solidarity with the vice president. The Great Homeland is with you, sister,” said former Bolivian president Evo Morales. Fernández de Kirchner’s house has been for several days the scene of demonstrations by his followers who repudiate the legal case for which they have asked for 12 years in prison and is considered by Kirchnerism to be an attempt at political proscription. In this context, in which calls for the death penalty against Fernández de Kirchner abound, this unusual episode has taken place.
The Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, described the situation that has been considered a assassination attempt by the vice president’s entourage: “they set him aside, the weapon is found and now the situation has to be analyzed by our scientists to assess this person’s willingness and ability to attack.”
Fernando Sabag Montiel, of Brazilian origin, is 35 years old, with a history of carrying weapons and episodes of violence.
“It’s a enormous degree of madness and hatred what they tried to do to the vice president,” said her son and national deputy, Máximo Kirchner. Different members of Peronism, in power, repeated similar ideas. The labor movement has called for mobilization and a cessation of activities this Friday. President Alberto Fernandez he was preparing to speak to the country on television. The ex-president Mauricio Macria bitter rival of Fernández de Kirchner, called for “immediate and profound clarification by the courts.”