- This is a group of cotton candy vendors who were near the house when the attack occurred.

- 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"

Argentina's vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, greets supporters outside her home in Buenos Aires.

The Police arrest a fourth suspect for the attack on Cristina Fernández: he is the head of the "band of the copitos"

The Police arrested a man for the frustrated attack on the Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández, and there are already four people arrested for the attack, which occurred on September 1, sources from the Airport Security Police (PSA) confirmed to Efe on Wednesday.

This is Gabriel Nicolás Carrizo, presented in local media as the head of the "band of the copitos", a group of cotton candy vendors that was placed in the surroundings of Fernández's home when Fernando Sabag Montiel, the first of those arrested, approached her during a demonstration of supporters and fired a pistol twice inches from her face, without being shot.

For this frustrated attack they are already detained, in addition to Sabag Montiel, a 35-year-old Brazilian; his girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, a 23-year-old Argentine; and Agustina Díaz, 21, also Argentine and friend of Uliarte.

Uliarte and Sabag Montiel are accused of "having tried to kill" the vice president "with the planning and prior agreement between the two" and also Díaz, according to what their lawyers affirmed this Wednesday, is accused of "participating in the planning of the attempt " of homicide, after investigators discovered a series of messages in which Uliarte allegedly confessed to his friend his plan to attack the former president (2007-2015).

Díaz's lawyers assured that his client "at no time believed that what she said could be carried out", considering that Uliarte was a "manipulator and storyteller", and asserted that Díaz knew about the attack "from the media communication".

The "snowflakes"

Due to the information provided by the seized cell phones, elements emerged where the Justice was able to establish that there was another attempted attack against the vice president that was aborted.

Uliarte, girlfriend of the main defendant for the assassination attempt, had among her occupations the street sale of cotton candy ("snowflakes"), as she herself admitted in statements to the Crónica TV news channel before the attack.

According to images broadcast by local media, the first time a cart with cotton candy was seen near Fernández's home was on August 23, at the beginning of the demonstrations in support of the former president after the request for the conviction of 12 years in prison against him formulated by a prosecutor two days before.

A similar cart was seen again four days later.

According to local media, investigators are working on the hypothesis that Uliarte was doing "intelligence" the days before the attack, to provide information to Sabag Montiel.

The judge in the case, María Eugenia Capuchetti, decided to impose summary secrecy and accepted this Wednesday the vice president's request to be admitted as a plaintiff in the case.

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