• Argentina They arrest the girlfriend of the man who attacked Cristina Kirchner: they suspect that Sabag Montiel did not act alone

  • The investigation Mobile reset: a key piece of evidence to elucidate the attack on Cristina Kirchner vanishes

The investigation of the attack on the Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, added new data this Monday to rule out the hypothesis of a "lone wolf": the girlfriend of the man who twice fired a pistol in front of the former president was also there when the events took place, confirmed in

Buenos Aires

sources aware of the legal case.

The police have kept Brenda Uliarte, 23, in custody since Sunday night.

The young woman said that she had not seen her boyfriend for two days, but that statement raised suspicions among the investigators.

After intervening her phone calls and reviewing the security cameras in the area, it was confirmed that Uliarte had been a few meters from

Fernando Sabag Montiel,

a 35-year-old Brazilian, at the time of the attack.

In those same images, it is seen how Uliarte, who calls herself "Ámbar" on social networks, sneaks away in the midst of the tumult to get away from her boyfriend and the scene of the events.

"A group of Kirchnerist militants pounced on Sabag Montiel after the attack, immobilized him and took him by force to the corner, away from the vice president. In the midst of the confusion, a short, red-haired woman is seen dressed in black with white sneakers who lowers her head, advances without looking at the tumult and crosses the street," reported

La Nación.


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Uliarte was arrested on Sunday at a train station in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of

Palermo.

The police had tapped her phones and had been following her.

Security camera footage shows Uliarte and Sabag Montiel traveling together by train and other means of public transportation.

Two days earlier, Uliarte, presented as

Ámbar,

had offered a very different version of her relationship with Sabag Montiel, with whom she shared a job in a cotton candy sales company.

"I don't understand why he did it, he is a good man, a worker," he said in an appearance on

Telefé Noticias.

"I was perplexed. I am very scared, they are blaming us for something we did not do. They say we are a terrorist group and we have nothing to do with it."

Nico,

a friend of Uliarte, said he was desperate: "We went out to sell cotton candy on the street and we didn't bother anyone. But they are threatening us with death."

With the passing of days, he learned more about the young woman, who also sells erotic services through social networks.

According to "Clarín", the accumulation of evidence is leading Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti to the conviction that Sabag Montiel did not act alone, although "there is no sophisticated organization, nor was it determined that it is a relevant organized group, much less." .

Sabag Montiel fired a 32-caliber Bersa pistol

twice last Thursday night in

front of the former president's face.

The bullets did not come out, even though there were five in the gun.

In this context, Sabag Montiel's mobile phone threatens to become an unusable piece of evidence: the device, in the hands of the police, was reset and returned to its original factory state.

"Investigators are seeking to know why the information on the

Samsung A50,

a key piece of evidence to the cause, could have been lost, which while in investigators' possession showed the legend 'factory formatted', which would mean it would be clean, like new" , pointed out this Sunday

La Nación.

According to

Clarín,

the experts in charge of manipulating the mobile phone were summoned at nine o'clock on Sunday morning, an absolutely unusual day and time, to give a statement.

Judge

Capuchetti

and prosecutor

Carlos Rívolo

want to know what happened.

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