- Brenda Uliarte sent the text to a friend, arrested this Tuesday, five days before the assassination attempt.
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| Arrest of Brenda Uliarte, the partner of Fernando Sabag Montiel, accused of trying to kill the Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández. |
The girlfriend of Cristina Fernández's attacker, in a WhatsApp message: "I ordered Cristina to be killed, she did not come out because she went inside"
The partner of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's attacker, Brenda Uliarte, sent a message to her friend Agustina Díaz, arrested on Tuesday, in which she claimed that she had ordered the Argentine vice president "to be killed."
"I had Cristina killed, she did not come out because she went inside," says a WhatsApp message that Uliarte sent to Díaz on August 27, five days before the attack, according to the judicial file of Díaz's arrest, and collects the Télam agency.
That same day, Uliarte assured Díaz that he would become "San Martín" [referring to José San Martín, the main liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru in the wars of independence] since he was going to act so that they would kill the former Argentine president
"I ordered Vice Cristina to be killed. She didn't come out because she went inside. I swear I had a row there. The liberals already have me re rotten going to become revolutionaries with torches in Plaza de Mayo. Enough talking, you have to act. I sent a guy to kill Cristi," Uliarte wrote, according to Clarín.
"Didn't he practice before or did his adrenaline fail him?"
The conversations in this tone had begun some time before the assassination attempt on September 1 and would continue until after the Brazilian Fernando Sabag Montiel wielded the weapon against the head of Fernández de Kirchner and the bullet did not come out.
"Che, but what happened that the shot missed? Didn't he practice before or did the adrenaline of the moment fail him? Where are you? Wouldn't it be convenient for you to go home?" Díaz asked Uliarte on September 2, after the attack. failed against the vice president.
The conversations between Brenda Uliarte and Agustina Díaz, charged with the assassination attempt on Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, reveal that they had planned the attack and that they had failed in a previous attempt.
Fernández was attacked on September 1 near her home in Buenos Aires, when she was greeting a group of supporters. The assailant, Fernando Sabag Montiel, pulled the trigger of a pistol a few centimeters from the vice president's face, but it did not fire.
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