Brazilian-born Argentine resident suspected of attempting to assassinate Argentine vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on 1 September 2022 at 8:52 PM (UTC-3).
A man approached her as she met with supporters outside of her official residence in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, and attempted to fire a semi-automatic pistol inches from her face. The pistol failed to fire, and the suspect was immediately arrested on scene.
He has been identified as Fernando André Sabag Montiel, a 35-year-old user driver who was born in Brazil and has lived in Argentina since 1993. He is in police custody, while the investigation continues.
On 17 March 2021, Sabag Montiel was arrested for possession of a 35-centimetre long knife in his vehicle during a traffic police inspection of the vehicle’s missing rear license plate, and he was charged with carrying “non-conventional weapons”. The case was dropped by the prosecution as “it was not an important matter”.
In the weeks before the attack, he was interviewed on the street by Crónica TV criticizing the government’s welfare programs, claiming they made people “lazy”. During the television interview and in his social media posts, Sabag Montiel made statements condemning both Fernández de Kirchner and her opponent Javier Milei.
Sabag Montiel has a Black Sun tattoo on his left elbow (a Nazi symbol) and an Iron Cross tattoo on his right hand. He was noted as following a wide range of occult beliefs on social media such as the Wicca pagan religion, “satanic communism”, “hermetic occult sciences” and “anti-psychopathic coach”, in addition to radical or hate groups. The accounts were deactivated shortly after the attack. He had been reported in the past for gender violence and animal abuse.
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