Man Detained for Attempted Shooting of Argentine Vice President Kirchner – In what President Alberto Fernández described as a homicide attempt, a man has been detained in Argentina after aiming a firearm at vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at point-blank range.
The incident happened close to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s Buenos Aires residence. Security personnel quickly grabbed the man and took him into custody. Authorities call the incident an assassination attempt and that it poses a threat to democracy.
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Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was the target of an attempted shooting on Thursday night, according to President Alberto Fernández, who described the incident as the “most severe incident to occur since we recovered democracy.”
In the country’s capital of Buenos Aires, video footage showed someone aiming a gun at the vice president’s head. According to Fernández, the suspect pushed the trigger even though the gun was loaded with five bullets and did not fire. Kirchner, 69, is unharmed and in the custody of federal law enforcement. The incident is still being looked into.
According to Argentina’s safety minister, a Brazilian man, Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel, 35, was detained. The handgun is held within inches from the vice chairman’s face in a video of the incident that a TV station released on social media.
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However, government officials described the incident as an assassination attempt:
“When hate and violence are imposed over the debate of ideas, societies are destroyed and generate situations like the one seen today: an assassination attempt,” Economy Minister Sergio Massa said. Ministers in President Fernández’s government issued a statement to “energetically condemn the attempted homicide” of the vice-president. Former president Mauricio Macri also repudiated the attack.
