A man was arrested after the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was pointed at with a pistol when she greeted a crowd that was waiting for her this Thursday at the doors of her house in the Recoleta neighborhood, in Buenos Aires. Aires.
The vice president was not injured. Here are the images of the moment when a gun was pointed at Fernández:
Hundreds of supporters of Fernández de Kirchner have spent days in the surroundings of his residence, after the Prosecutor’s Office requested for her 12 Years in prison and disqualification from holding public office for alleged corruption.
Videos captured by Witnesses’ phones show the moment a gun is pointed at the vice president’s head. Local media assure that the weapon did not work, although this information has not been confirmed by the authorities, nor is the motive for the event known.
Then bodyguards and supporters of the vice president are seen detaining a man who, according to local media, is a Brazilian citizen from 35 years of age.
“Attempted assassination”
Security Minister Aníbal Fernández told C5N television that the suspect was in custody and that the police would carry out an expert report on the weapon.
“Now it has to be analyzed the situation by our people from Científica to evaluate the traces and the capacity and disposition that this person had”, he indicated.
The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, is expected to address the nation shortly.
In a tweet, the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, stated that it was of an attempted “assassination”.