A 35-year-old Brazilian with a criminal record and who has tattoos with nazi references He is the presumed author of the assassination attempt against the country vice president, Cristina Fernandezdifferent Argentine media have reported.
The man arrested after the attackhas been identified as Fernando Andres Sabag Montielwith residence in Argentina since 1993. He currently lives in the neighborhood of La Paternal, in Buenos Aires, as reported by government sources to the newspaper The nation.
according to the rotary Clarionin March 2021 the detainee was charged for carrying a weapon unconventional in La Paternal. It was a large knife that he alleged he was carrying for his personal defense, security sources told the newspaper.
Commercial records cited by the newspaper indicate that Sabag Montiel is registered as dedicated to the “non-regular urban and suburban automotive transport service for free passengers”, a category that corresponds to services requested by mobile applications.
Social profiles deleted this morning
Apparently he has a registered chevrolet prism car in your name and, according to The nationon his social networks you can see that he follows profiles linked to radicalized and hate groupsas well as pages of “Masonic orders”, “satanic communism” or occult sciences. However, their profiles on social networks were dismissed during the morningadd the rotary.
The newspaper Clarion ensures that the detainee has various tattoossome allusive to Viking and Germanic mythologies, including one on the shoulder that represents a “Schwarze Sonne”, a black sun, a symbol linked to the occult philosophy of Nazism and used by Adolf Hitler’s SS.
Supporters and opponents of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner face off in protests
Sabag Montiel has been arrested after wielding a firearm and pointing it at the face of the former presidentwho, in a reflexive gesture, crouched down in the middle of the escorts who protected her when she arrived at her home in the Recoleta neighborhood of the capital.
“This attack deserves the strongest repudiation of all Argentine society, of all political sectors“
Up to 100 projectiles have been seized this Friday in the detainee’s home. Federal Police officers found these ammunition during the search of the suspect’s residencewho lived in the Buenos Aires municipality of San Martín, located on the outskirts of the capital.
As soon as the news was known, the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, announced an appearance on the national network, in which he declared a holiday this Friday and said that “this attack deserves the strongest repudiation of the entire Argentine society, of all the political sectors, because these facts affect our democracy“.
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They arrest a man who tried to shoot Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerhttps://t.co/4epxPTfTlq“
— RTVE News (@rtvenoticias) September 2, 2022
Fernández said that the vice president “remains alive because, for a reason not yet technically confirmed, the weapon that had five bullets did not fire despite having been triggered.”
The frustrated attack took place in the middle of the Permanent vigil of Kirchnerist followers that, since August 22, when a prosecutor asked for her 12 years in prison for an accusation of corruptionwas installed next to the former president’s home.
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