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One year and ten months after They will try to kill former president Cristina Kirchner from a shot in the head, Fernando Sabag Montiel and his girlfriend Brenda Uliarte They will begin to be tried today accused of attempted qualified homicide, which exposes them to a sentence of between 13 years and 4 months, minimum, and 20 years in prison, maximum.
They will be accompanied on the dock by their boss in the venture of selling colored cotton candy flakes. Nicolas Gabriel Carrizoaccused to be participant of the attempted murder.
The trial will be carried out by the Federal Oral Court 6 made up of Sabrina Namer, Adrián Grünberg and Ignacio Fornari. The prosecution will be carried out by the Attorney General. Gabriela Baigun who will be charged with attempted murder qualified by treachery, that is, taking advantage of the former president’s defenselessness, with the intervention of two or more people, and the use of a weapon.
The fiscal Baigun said to THE NATION which studies whether it is possible to apply a gender aggravating circumstance because it is an attempted femicide.
The former president is a plaintiff in the case, with her lawyers José Manuel Ubeira and Marcos Alzabal. Cristina Kirchner He stated from the beginning that there are more people responsible for the assassination attempt, not just these three people. On that path he accused the former PRO deputy Gerardo Milman to intervene in the attack in some way and to the far-right group Federal Revolution of instigating the actions of the material authors. However None of this was proven and It is not a matter of judgment.
The fiscal Baigun He said he hopes to get to the truth and make it clear if these three people are responsible or if there are others involved. ”I do not believe in the hypotheses of the complaint, I do not prejudge, it does not correspond to me; the first instance prosecutor Carlos Rivolo “He has another part of the case open, if so it is because he believes that there may be someone else in the incident, and I hope to be able to collaborate with him based on what comes out of this debate,” said the official.
In the first instance, the prosecutor Rivolo with the court of Maria Eugenia Capuchetti It is still investigating if there are other people responsible.
The custody of Cristina Kirchner is also a matter of investigation, who did not act with the expected professionalism and He was unable to prevent the attacker from firing the trigger on the former president’s head. The bullet did not come out because the gun was not cocked.
Sabag Montiel is represented by the official defender María Fernanda López Puleio, whose strategy calls into question whether the accused is fit to face criminal proceedings. Carrizo’s defense is in the hands of Gaston Marano and Uliarte is advised by Alejandro Cipolla.
The defenses will seek to prove, on the one hand, that Sabag Montiel is not responsible and, on the other, that the weapon he used to shoot the former president in the head I was not fit to shoot because the projectile was not mounted in the barrel, so no matter how much I pulled the trigger, the bullet would never come out.
Brenda Uliarte She will seek to detach herself from her boyfriend’s decisions. But she has it difficult because There are messages between the two about the attempted murder and videos that place her near the crime scene.. Carrizo, accused of being a secondary participant, has it easier although there are telephone messages that link him to the attempted murder and the couple.
They are all imprisoned awaiting this trial for which 277 witnesses will parade, including Cristina Kirchner as the victim. The hearings will take place on Wednesdays 8 to 14 Therefore, it is estimated that the entire process will be very long, at least a year, if more hearings are not scheduled on other days of the week or the hours are not extended.
One of the pieces of evidence that could be revealed at trial is the content of the victim’s phone. Sabag Montiel. As soon as the device was seized, an information extraction operation was carried out, which was carried out by the PSA and the Federal Police, but something failed and it was blocked.
Now, the technology specialists of the Public Prosecutor’s Office carried out a test with another device, not Sabag Montiel’s, to find out the possibilities of resetting the cell phone and it was successful. The team of experts is now in a position to carry out the same procedure about the phone Sabag Montiel. There is only one chance, if it goes wrong the information will be permanently lost.
Although there is no certainty that the information from the accused’s cell phone can be acquired, there are serious possibilities for it to be done, said prosecutor Baigún, who is betting that the content completes the evidence, which is already abundant.
Only on the first day of the trial will TV cameras be able to record what happens inside the courtroom, which will be broadcast on YouTube. That day, the order of submission to trial, the prosecutor’s accusation, the previous issues will be analyzed and then the accused will be invited to give an investigatory statement to defend themselves from what they heard. They can refuse and testify later. Once witnesses begin testifying, only the public in the courtroom will be able to access the content. In addition, an important security operation was carried out in Commodore Py 2002.
Sabag Montiel He is accused of being the author of the crime of “homicide doubly qualified by treachery and the premeditated collaboration of two or more people aggravated by the use of a firearm; Uliarte as co-author and Carrizo as a secondary participant.
The attack was recorded in footage where you can see Sabag Montiel trigger on the head of the former president on the night of September 1, 2022 when she entered her home in Recoleta, in the middle of a demonstration of people who supported her.
Cristina Kirchner She arrived at her home building, where she lived at that time, on the corner of Montevideo and Juncal, when a huge group of followers was waiting for her after being sentenced to 12 years in prison for illicit association and defrauding the State in the Roads case.
When I was meters from the door, Sabag Montiel He approached and pointed a 32-caliber Bersa pistol in his face, which he fired at least once, but the bullet did not come out. The list of 277 witnesses includes custodians, activists, psychologists and experts.
