Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has spoken publicly for the first time since the attack she suffered on the 1st of this month, saying that she was unharmed thanks to God and the Virgin Mary.
“I feel that I am alive only thanks to God and the Virgin Mary.”
“So if I have to thank God and the Virgin Mary, I want to do it among the priests for the poor, the priests of the poor neighborhoods, the laity and the religious sisters,” said the president of the Senate in a meeting with priests (from neighborhoods filled with people) and religious and religious. lay sisters.
Returning to democracy meant “recovering life and rationality, being able to discuss in politics what democracy has been since 1983 and rooting out this violence,” the Senate president said.
However, on the day of the attack, “there was a rift that we urgently need to rebuild,” she said.
The former president (2007-2015) said Pope Francis called her the day after the failed attack and told her that “acts of hate and violence are always preceded by words and verbs of hate and violence.”
“There have always been groups that were not the majority, but small, but with great power, that wanted to suppress and eliminate dissidents,” she said.
In her speech, Kirchner called for a review of how Argentines see themselves, rejecting the idea that a separate law is needed to serve justice because “the laws already in place are enough.”
Regarding the day of the attempted shooting, she stressed that it was the militants, not the police, who arrested Fernando Sabag Montiel, the 35-year-old who fired a gun inches from her face.
The former president also mentioned that two-time president Hipólito Yrigoyen (1916-1922 and 1928-1930) was the victim of an assassination attempt when a man fired five bullets at him but did not injure him.
Four people were arrested in connection with the investigation into the attempted murder of Cristina Fernández on September 1: Sabag Montiel, his girlfriend Brenda Uliarte, 23, and her friend Agustina Díaz, 21.
The day before, Nicolás Gabriel Carrizo was also arrested, who claimed to be the leader of a group of sugar traffickers, including Uliarte and Sabag Montiel.
Sabag Montiel is of Brazilian origin, although he has lived in Argentina since the age of six and has a criminal record for illegal possession of weapons.
Cell phone analysis shows that the attack was planned, as Uliarte confessed to her friend Diaz on August 27, a few days before the failed attack, that she had ordered the killing of Cristina Kirchner.
