An attempt was made on the vice president of Argentina, the assailant was arrested ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christina Fernandez de Kirchner .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 2 . September . 2022 | Society.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0<\/strong>Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was assassinated as she greeted supporters outside her home in Buenos Aires on Thursday.\u00a0During the meeting, a Brazilian approached her and started aiming at the politician’s face .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n People came to Fernandez’s house to support her after corruption charges were brought against the vice president in court. On the recordings from television cameras, it is visible how an unknown man pushes through the supporters and points a gun close to the face of the vice president. However, according to reports, no shots were fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The man pointed the firearm at her head and pulled the trigger. Cristina is still alive because for some reason, which has not yet been confirmed, the gun…did not fire,” Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said about the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Security Minister Anibal Fernandez told a local TV channel that the man was detained at the scene. According to the media, the attacker was a 35-year-old Brazilian. It is reported that the police are currently investigating the circumstances of the attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner is an Argentine politician, since December 10, 2019 she holds the position of Vice President of Argentina. In 2007-2015, she was the president of Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently, the vice-president is accused of concluding road contracts with the construction company of her close ally during her presidential term. Fernandez herself stated that the charges against her are politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week, the prosecutor insisted on a 12-year prison sentence for the politician if she is found guilty.\u00a0This provoked mass protests across the country, including near Fernandez’s home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source<\/strong>:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An attempt was made on the vice president of Argentina, the assailant was arrested , Christina Fernandez de Kirchner . KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 2 . September . 2022 | Society. \u00a0Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was assassinated as she greeted supporters outside her home in Buenos Aires on Thursday.\u00a0During the meeting, a Brazilian approached […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11447,16],"tags":[813,996,1000,1024,1064],"class_list":["post-45745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-ukraine-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45755,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45745\/revisions\/45755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}