News of sabag montiel

Point by point: CFK’s defence against allegations in Vialidad case

01-12-2022 17:31 Countdown to the verdict in the ‘Vialidad’ case has begun, in which Vice-President Cristina Fernández Kirchner and more than 10 others face corruption accusations.

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

CFK's legal team requests judge’s removal from probe into attack

14-11-2022 18:14 Vice-president’s legal team seeks recusal of Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti in strong terms, accusing her of failing to investigate the so-called ‘Casablanca trail’ and alleging that she neither “knows nor wants to investigate” crime thoroughly.

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Expert report says CFK attacker has ‘narcissistic’ personality

14-11-2022 14:56 Fernando André Sabag Montiel, the man who tried to kill Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on September 1, views himself as a modern-day version of Nelson Mandela, according to a report drawn up by forensic doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists.

ARGENTINA

CFK demands removal of judge in assassination attempt probe

10-11-2022 14:52 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demands recusal of Judge Maria Eugenia Capuchetti in explosive intervention, linking opposition politician Gerardo Millman to failed attack and alleging assailants’ political connections have not been thoroughly investigated.

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Court orders release of one of four detained for attack on CFK

01-11-2022 13:20 Appeals court in Buenos Aires orders release of 21-year-old Agustina Díaz due to a lack of evidence to indict her; Leader of ‘los copitos’ gang Gabriel Carrizo to be remanded in custody under pre-trial detention.

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Airport Security Police recover content from CFK attacker’s phone

06-10-2022 15:01 Head of Airport Security Police (PSA) confirms experts have gained access to “three Google accounts” and “entire Telegram database” of Fernando Sabag Montiel; Investigators will now comb through messages dating back to 2020.

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Judge charges two more for role in Fernández de Kirchner assassination attempt

02-10-2022 08:31 Federal Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti on Saturday charged Nicolás Gabriel Carrizo and Agustina Díaz with complicity in the attempted assassination of Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner last month.

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No appeal from CFK attack 'co-authors' Sabag Montiel and Uliarte

22-09-2022 01:50 Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel and Brenda Uliarte refrain from appealing their indictments for attempted homicide, with Nicolás Carrizo, the alleged leader of the candy floss gang, and Agustina Díaz set to testify.

EDITORIAL

Magnicide versus magnification

17-09-2022 02:57 The failed attack on the vice-president should serve to place the grieta rift in a new light. Instead of being viewed as an unbridgeable gap between two political sides, the chasm should be seen as the millions who find no place in the two opposing coalitions or society as a whole.

As I see it

Rumblings from below

17-09-2022 02:55 The botched attempt to assassinate Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has encouraged fears that Argentina could see the return of political violence.

by James Neilson

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Extremist group in spotlight as Fernández de Kirchner attack probe progresses

15-09-2022 23:38 Fernando André Sabag Montiel and Brenda Uliarte formally charged with attempted murder; AFI leaks audio from Revolución Federal group proposing “infiltration” techniques to kill the vice-president.

Opinion

The crime of the precarious

15-09-2022 01:19 The attempt on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s life warranting repudiation throws light on the structural backdrop of the excluded in this country.

by Eduardo Fidanza

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Third person arrested in Fernández de Kirchner assassination probe

13-09-2022 21:19 Investigation into failed shooting attack on Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner takes another turn as a third individual – named in local media as Agustina Díaz, a friend of the assailant's partner Brenda Uliarte – is taken into custody by police.

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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's attacker – not such a lone wolf?

12-09-2022 15:32 Fernando André Sabag Montiel, the man who pulled the trigger against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner but failed to kill her, is still an unknown quantity in Argentina – but it's increasingly looking like he did not act alone.

Political analysis

Neo-Nazi memes and the conspiracy to kill Cristina

10-09-2022 02:00 Our level of distrust in democratic institutions, the media, and society in general is well documented and it follows certain global trends that have given rise to dangerous fringe organisations, particularly right-wingers, more broadly grouped by having been pushed toward the edges of the system.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

OPINION

The problem is not other people, but us

09-09-2022 10:48 Following the attack on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the only thing on which both sides agree is that the blame belongs to the discourse of hatred which the other side foment.

by Gustavo González

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Investigators probe CFK attacker's potential links to far-right groups

09-09-2022 10:33 Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and Prosecutor Carlos Rívolo have made arrests, continued to gather information, and come to the conclusion that the attempted attack was premeditated and potentially carried out by a larger group and not a “lone wolf.”

WHERE THE INVESTIGATION STANDS

One week on from attack on CFK: Two arrests, one weapon, plenty of unknowns

09-09-2022 09:52 After a week of investigation and an ever-bulging casefile, investigators are still attempting to reconstruct the details of the failed shooting attack on Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that miraculously failed.

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Judge: Attacker and girlfriend 'planned' attempted hit on CFK

08-09-2022 03:11 Fernando Sabag Montiel, and his girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, planned the attack on Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, according to preliminary charges filed by judge probing the case.

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Investigators find images showing CFK attacker, girlfriend posing with gun

06-09-2022 17:53 Investigators uncover images of suspected attacker, Fernando André Sabag Montiel, and his girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, posing with what they believe is the weapon used in failed shooting attack.

Cristina & the courts

Public works graft trial resumes, just four days after failed attack on Veep

05-09-2022 12:24 Trial investigating alleged corruption involving Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and 12 others resumes with defence arguments, just four days after shocking failed shooting attack on vice-president.

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Police confirm arrest of girlfriend of Fernández de Kirchner's attacker

05-09-2022 08:17 Fernández de Kirchner's lawyer Gregorio Dalbón says he's sure attacker Fernando André Sabag Montiel "didn't act alone," as police confirm arrest of his 23-year-old girlfriend Brenda Uliarte.

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Investigators fear crucial info on CFK attacker's mobile phone may be lost

04-09-2022 18:36 Multiple reports suggest attacker's mobile phone has been reset to factory mode, potentially putting at risk vital information; Sources say no fingerprints were found on the Bersa Thunder .32-calibre gun allegedly used by Sabag Montiel in the attack due to melee that followed attempted shooting.

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

International condemnation of failed attack on CFK floods in

02-09-2022 18:08 Messages of shock and solidarity poured in from around the world Friday after a man tries to shoot Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in an attack captured on video. The Pope, Latin American leaders and the UN Rights office in Geneva among those to send messages of support to Argentina’s vice-president.