Argentina’s Vice-President Cristina Fernandez has requested on Monday the dismissal of the federal judge Maria Eugenia Capuchetti, in charge of the assassination attempt against Fernandez herself perpetrated on September 1.
She «does not want to go beyond what she already is» in investigating the assassination attempt for which the man who wanted to assassinate her, Fernando André Sabag Montiel, his accomplice, Brenda Uliarte, and two «secondary participants», Nicolás Carrizo and Agustina Díaz, are accused as co-perpetrators.
«It is impossible to continue like this. We are facing one of the most relevant cases in our democratic history and we need the investigation to be led by someone who is willing and that the decisions are made by an impartial judge, committed to truth and justice and not to not bother those who should not be bothered,» said lawyers Marcos Aldazabal and José Manuel Ubeira in the letter, disseminated by Fernández on Twitter.
Fernández’s complaint points to the loss of information from the aggressor’s phone that allegedly occurred in the first days of the investigation, when he was already in the custody of the court.
«In an inexplicable way, during the day of Friday, September 2, the magistrate broke the chain of custody (…). The most serious thing was that (the phone) arrived reset to zero,» the lawyers explain.
He also denounces the alleged delays in intercepting Uliarte’s communications and in ordering his arrest. «Instead of giving the urgent order to detain her, the judge waited to materialize the measure, when there was nothing to weigh (…). A call from the DAJuDeCO that warned about what had happened, added to the alacrity of the court clerk, prevented Uliarte from consummating her escape», they point out.
They also regret the judge’s passivity in following possible lines of investigation and refusing to investigate the financing of the attack.
