Fernando Sabag Montielthe accused who pulled the trigger on the former vice president Cristina Kirchner He asked to be released but the Federal Oral Court 6 that is judging him decided reject the request and extended his pretrial detention for a period of one year until September 2025.
Other possible participants and masterminds
Among the grounds for rejecting the request for release or mitigation of his imprisonment, the oral court considered that there are still measures to be taken “in relation to some of the hypotheses introduced in the proceedings aimed at verifying the existence of other possible participants and/or masterminds of the scheme under investigation.”
The court itself acknowledged the possibility that in addition to the people on trial, Sabag Montiel, Brenda Uliarte and Nicolás Carrizo, there could be other people involved, the masterminds behind the assassination attempt.
The court noted that the plaintiff, Cristina de Kirchner, maintained that the “production of many highly relevant measures of evidence” and the further investigation of “various pending lines of investigation” were still pending.
Risk of flight and obstruction of investigation
In rejecting the claim, the court considered that “they remain valid and are not disputed by new elements of evidence.” procedural risks of flight and obstruction of the process.”
For the court, “the only coercive measure sufficient to guarantee the progress of the investigation, the discovery of the truth and the application of the substantive law, is the preventive detention of Fernando André Sabag Montiel in a detention unit.”
The judges Sabrina Namer and Adrián Grünberg They considered “the violent nature, the magnitude and the institutional gravity of the act attributed to Fernando André Sabag Montiel.” That is, having “attempted to kill” the then vice president on September 1, 2022.
Expertise on Sabag Montiel’s telephone
An expert report is pending consisting of: a “rooting” operation and subsequent physical extraction of the contents of the cell phone seized from Fernando André Sabag Montiel.
The objective is to recover any information that may have been left in the storage of said electronic device.
More than 200 witnesses must also testify, and a similar number whose summons were made subject to the outcome of the trial.
The Court also noted that Sabag Montiel “He signed various documents that established, based on his statements, a property other than the one he lived in, trying in a certain way to hinder the judicial action.” For the judges, “there are doubts about Sabag Montiel’s roots, given his family, social, housing, work and economic situation.”
“We consider that, in order to ensure the success of the process, it is appropriate to extend the precautionary measure of penitentiary confinement of Fernando André Sabag Montiel for a period of one year, in order to guarantee the continuation of the oral and public debate and ensure its normal conclusion,” concluded the judges of the Oral Court.
Source: Ambito
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