Fernando Sabag Montiel, the man who tried to assassinate Vice President Cristina Fernández, would have done so motivated by money, according to a witness to the Argentine Justice.
The witness, with initials EME, who lived with Sabag Montiel four years ago, was summoned to testify in the case of the attempted assassination of Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, on September 1.
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The federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and the prosecutor Carlos Rívolo took a statement from the witness after EME published on social networks on September 2: “Those of us who knew the bum well have it clear that he did it for money, he liked easy money, that things come easily to him and that he has to move as little as possible to get them.”
The witness supported the hypothesis that the man who wanted to assassinate Fernández would have done it “for money,” since he did not want to be “a hero, or anything,” according to the judicial declaration.
“As soon as I found out, I thought it was for money, I couldn’t believe that in four years his political ideology, which he didn’t even have, was so radicalized, it seemed very strange to me,” said the witness.
EME, who defined Sabag Montiel as “someone without any social sensitivity”, stressed that she/he maintains what she/he said on social networks.
“I still think the same, I always maintained that it was for money, from all the versions that circulated. That a social justice bug may have bitten him is rare for Nando, who has no empathy for the people around him. For me it was because of money, it’s indisputable, I support it,” the witness ratified.
When asked by the Prosecutor’s Office if she/he had ever heard Sabag Montiel affirm that he was willing to kill someone for money, EME said: “I did not hear him literally say that he would kill someone for money, but I deduced it that way because of his way of dealing with others (…) In some way he was always related to money. The people who made him lose money or owed him. I never saw him very worried about family issues, about friends either, now when the issue was money… ”
Asked if Sabag Montiel expressed feeling represented by any ideology, the witness replied: “No, the truth is that no. That’s why I say again that as soon as I found out I thought it was for money, I couldn’t believe that in four years his political ideology was so radicalized, which he didn’t even have, seemed very strange to me,” EME concluded.
Four people have been arrested so far for the failed attack on the vice president. Sabag Montiel and his partner, Brenda Uliarte, considered co-author of the attempted murder of Cristina Fernández, were prosecuted with preventive detention.
Nicolás Carrizo, head of the gang that sold cotton candy to which Sabag Montiel and Uliarte belonged, was also prosecuted with preventive detention.
Agustina Díaz, a friend of Uliarte, was also arrested and prosecuted with preventive detention, but the judge revoked her prosecution for lack of merit and released her.
With information from Sputnik