More than three decades ago, on February 23, 1991, the former Argentine president Raul Alfonsin also saved his life thanks to a failure in the drum of the long 32 caliber revolver With which Ishmael Abdullahwho was then 29 years old and a former member of the National Gendarmerie, tried to assassinate him.
Abdala approached the box from where Alfonsín spoke before 5,000 people, in a political act organized by the Radical Civic Union of the city of St nicolas, and pulled the trigger several times. But the gun mechanism jammed and failed to fire any bullets.
A man in his 70s, Vincent Massisi, threw himself on top of Abdala and snatched the weapon from him. And other radical militants held him and beat him until those in charge of the security of the event handed him over to the police.
Federal Police officer daniel latecustodian of Alfonsín, he covered it with his bodywhile another of the custodians, Ricardo Raul Roverehe went over to the author of the shot.
Alfonsín asked for calm attendees and then continued with a harangue on the need to defend democratic institutions to guarantee freedom and justice.
abdullahwhich he had written before planning the attack letters to George Bush and Mikhail GorbachevHe was tried and found not guilty by mental insanity and admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
Some time later he was discharged under the pretext that he was not a danger to himself or to others. But Abdalá phoned Marcela Alfonsíndaughter of the former president, and told her that he wanted to see her to apologize.
she was the one He made the complaint and he was re-interned andn the psychiatric hospital from which he would come out again in 1994, but a few days later he committed suicide.
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