Photograph found on Sabag Montiel's cell phone in which he poses with a weapon.RR.
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Fernando Sabag Montiel did not act alone.
Last Thursday, when he infiltrated hundreds of militants and tried to shoot Cristina Kirchner, he was accompanied by his girlfriend.
They arrived shortly before nine at night, and it was not difficult for them to blend in with the crowd that was waiting for the Argentine vice president at the doors of her house.
A leak in the investigation confirms that they had planned it beforehand: in images found on one of their phones, both pose with a weapon similar to the one that Sabag Montiel tried to shoot centimeters from Kirchner's forehead.
The new evidence strengthens the thesis of a premeditated plan of attack.
Brenda Uliarte had been arrested on Sunday night, after the investigation revealed that she was waiting for her partner around the vice president's house the night of the attack.
The young woman had lied twice.
The day after the assassination attempt, she told television that she had lived with Sabag Montiel for a month, but that she had not seen him in recent days.
Ella uliarte had agreed to the interview because, according to what she denounced, she was being harassed and she wanted to make it clear that she had nothing to do with the assassination attempt.
“I am very afraid, because they take away our chance to work and also because they are blaming us for something we did not do,” she said, surrounded by friends before the
Telefé
cameras .
Photograph found on Sabag Montiel's cell phone of his partner, Brenda Uliarte, posing with a weapon.RR.
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The judge in charge of the case decreed the summary secrecy of the investigation, and Uliarte has slept in prison ever since.
This Tuesday, images released by the
Clarín
newspaper again denied her statements: the young woman had stated that she was unaware that her boyfriend had a weapon, but in one of the photos she is seen posing with the 32-caliber pistol tied to her her waist.
In another of the photographs, Sabag Montiel caresses the trigger and stares into her lens.
The weapon, of national manufacture and at least 40 years old, was registered in the name of a neighbor of the attacker who died in 2021.
After the revelation, both Sabag Montiel and Uliarte have been transferred to the headquarters of the Judiciary, in Buenos Aires, to be investigated by the judge.
The attacker had refused to testify after his arrest and only accepted a public defender.
His girlfriend will appear after she refused to accept the same lawyer that defends Sabag Montiel.
Justice also determined that the couple had drawn up a plan.
Both were detected in the surroundings of Cristina Kirchner's apartment days before the attack, according to the reconstruction made by the authorities based on the geolocation of their cell phones and a survey of security cameras.
The videos complicate Uliarte, who was arrested two days after the attack while traveling by train to the city center.
The reconstruction made by the authorities shows that they spent almost the whole day together: that Thursday they traveled to the outskirts of Buenos Aires to pay for a session with a tattoo artist and returned to the city.
Minutes before nine o'clock at night, they arrived together in the Recoleta neighborhood, where Cristina Kirchner's militants had been on vigil for 10 days after the latest advances in a corruption case against her.
A federal prosecutor is asking for a sentence of 12 years in prison and his lifelong disqualification for, allegedly, having headed an illicit organization that enriched himself by diverting money from public works during his government, between 2007 and 2015.
cotton candy and porn videos
It is not the first time that Sabag Montiel and Uliarte have captured the attention of television cameras.
Weeks before the attack, the young woman starred in a street interview in which she complained about immigration and social plans to help the unemployed.
“I am 23 years old, I have no children.
Are you Argentine?
Instead of coming to a country to collect a plan, go to your country to collect it there," she rebuked another interviewee, and was proud of having renounced State aid: "With the plan she earned 18 [thousand pesos, about 130 dollars at the official rate], but I do that in three working days.
You get ahead by working, not charging plans.
It is better to go out to work than to charge a plan, don't be lazy, go out to work”.
Sabag Montiel accompanied her.
According to what they said, they sold cotton candy together with other friends on Corrientes Avenue, the main artery of the Buenos Aires theater circuit.
But that was just one of her occupations.
The attacker had been arrested in March 2021 for driving in a car without a license plate and carrying a 35-centimeter knife.
He used the car as an app driver.
Brenda Uliarte also told on television that she was studying medicine, but in an interview with the
Clarín
newspaper , her uncle doubted that she had finished high school.
In her LinkedIn profile, she has only one reference: a cleaning worker at a service station.
Uliarte called herself Ámbar on social networks and on payment platforms, where she sold erotic content.
She also broadcast live videos on porn sites.
All the content of her Instagram account has been deleted, but on Monday the last traces she left before being arrested could still be seen: a live broadcast in which she stated that she was not afraid of being called to testify, and the speech that the Far-right deputy, Javier Milei, gave Congress on Saturday during a session condemning the attack suffered by the vice president.
“There were deaths yesterday, there were deaths today, and there will be deaths tomorrow.
And politics is still looking at the navel," said Milei, who has 15% support in next year's presidential polls. "We make our repudiation of violence clear, but we do not accept this
Dantesque
show of politics," he told the end of the video, which Uliarte accompanied with a message to the deputy: "Strength, lion!".
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