Two years have passed since the assassination attempt, and the justice system is carrying out the oral and public trial of the material aggressor Sabag Montiel, his ex-girlfriend Brenda Uliarte, and Gabriel Carrizo, owner of the sugar flake business.
Accusation
The three are accused of attempted double homicide qualified by treachery and the premeditated participation of two or more persons aggravated by the use of a firearm.
The authorship of Sabag Montiel is beyond dispute. And from what was seen in the trial, Brenda Uliarte’s defense aims to have her declared unaccountableMeanwhile, and despite the fact that Carrizo talks about jokes and pranks, the messages on his cell phone incriminate him.
It is not part of the trial, despite the requests of the plaintiff lawyers representing Cristina, nor the investigation into the deputy Gerardo Milman and his secretaries, nor the file on the far-right group Revolución Federal.
Nor is there any debate in the trial about whether the leader of the Federal Revolution, Jonathan Morel, received funding for the organization through the company Caputo Hermanos.
The trial, which will be held weekly, is being conducted by judges Sabrina Namer, Adrián Grünberg and Ignacio Fornari, and the prosecutor is Gabriela Baigún.
The detainees on trial: Sabag Montiel, Uliarte and Carrizo
Fernando Sabag Montiel, the young Brazilian who held the gun and pulled the trigger, and his girlfriend Brenda Uliarte, who was present near the scene of the attack, are the main defendants.
The leader of the “Copitos”, Nicolás Carrizo, is also on trial. He is in prison and accused of being a secondary participant in the attack.
The prosecution considered that they did not have “financing” to carry out the attempted murder.
Sabag Montiel and his confession
“I wanted to kill her and she (Brenda) wanted me to die,” This was one of the phrases that the main defendant said before the Federal Oral Court 6 that is conducting the debate.
At the beginning of the trial, Sabag Montiel confessed his desire to kill Cristina and insisted that it was due to personal motivation without “the action of third parties.”
Regarding his ex-girlfriend Brenda Uliarte, also accused in the trial, Sabag Montiel said that “he wanted to see her (Cristina) dead.”
He had previously explained the reasons why he wanted to attack the then vice president. “I think it is an act of justice and it was not an act in which I tried to benefit myself financially. It has a deeper, more ethical and more committed connotation to social good than anything else.”
Carrizo, apology and a joke
“I don’t want to use it as an excuse, but we were drinking fernet, alcohol was the norm. I was intoxicated and started sending messages.. I swear I never took this as seriously as I should have. I’ve been punishing myself for this for a year and nine months. What I said was never true, it was a joke”
This was stated by the owner of the flake making machine, who explained the employment relationship that linked him to his fellow consorts.
Messages were found on his cell phone in which he spoke about the organization of the attack. He explained that he was “in a high” and that for him it was all a joke.
Brenda and her strategy. A key report
First she agreed to testify, then she surprised everyone with a “No, I will not testify, I will annul the case.” Those who witnessed the trial warned that Brenda Uliarte’s strategy is to have her declared unaccountable.
But days ago, a report from the psychiatric service of the Federal Penitentiary Service stated that Brenda “it is oriented in time and space”who has neither suicidal nor depressive tendencies, which is a setback for his defense.
The political leg never deepened
The so-called “Milman lead” that points to the Juntos por el Cambio deputy is still in the investigation stage, although weakened.
Moving forward on the Milman trail was a claim by the vice president’s lawyers since the statement of a witness who heard Milman say that he was going to be on his way to the coast when the attack on Cristina was made public.
The complaint has always questioned the fact that the maneuver to erase the content of the cell phones of two of the deputy’s collaborators was not properly investigated.
“Erase everything,” is what Ivana Bohdziewicz, one of Milman’s secretaries, told the court when she recounted the episode in Patricia Bullrich’s office with an expert who currently works for the Minister of Security.
The phones were only examined in 2023. Only from Bohdziewicz’s were some chats recovered.
The contents of Sabag Montiel’s phone could not be obtained either. First the Federal Police and then the Airport Security Police tried to access the cell phone but were unable to do so. Suspicions of irregularities also led to an investigation into the incident.
“Contemporary Nostradamus”
Testifying as a witness at the trial, Cristina Kirchner described Milman as a “contemporary Nostradamus” and recalled that a few months before the assassination attempt, the PRO deputy had presented a project requesting information on the former president’s custody.
Cristina Kirchner, who has been very critical of the investigation, believes that the mastermind is missing. Her lawyers José Manuel Ubeira and Marcos Aldazabal have always expressed the same opinion.
“This is a trial against the perpetrators, the intellectual authors and financiers of the crime are missing.” “It is a debt that must be settled not with me, but with democracy,” Cristina declared to the Oral Court.
Source: Ambito
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