The man approached Cristina Kirchner in the middle of the crowd waiting to greet her and ask her for an autograph for an autobiographical book.
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The images, broadcast live on television, show a gun pointed suddenly at Cristina Kirchner, before being narrowly dismissed. A man was arrested Thursday, September 1, for having aimed his weapon at the vice-president of the country, as she got out of the car that took him to his home, in the Recoleta district, in Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital.
“Now the situation must be analyzed by our forensic personnel to analyze the fingerprints and the capacity and the disposition that this person had”, said Security Minister Anibal Fernandez. The man approached Cristina Kirchner in the middle of the waiting crowd to greet her and ask for an autograph. The shocking scene was filmed by television cameras and relayed on Twitter by a journalist. “Cristina is alive, because for a reason that has not yet been technically confirmed, the weapon that contained five bullets did not fire, although it was triggered”Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said in a speech hours after the incident.
The attack was condemned by the opposition coalition Together for Change, which called for an investigation into the events, as well as by the government.
Hundreds of activists have gathered since last week outside the home of Cristina Kirchner, 69, accused of fraud and corruption relating to the awarding of public contracts in her stronghold of Santa Cruz, in the south of the country, during her two terms in office. presidential (2007-2015). In this case, the prosecution requested a 12-year prison sentence and life ineligibility against the left-wing politician.