Argentina’s vice president Christina Fernandez de Kirchner narrowly escaped an attempted assassination after the gunman’s weapon failed to fire – and new details have emerged about the man behind it. The man who was arrested for attempting to assassinate Argentina’s vice president has been revealed as Fernando Montiel – and he’s inked with neo-Nazi tattoos. The horrifying incident took place while Christina Fernandez de Kirchner was meeting and greeting supporters outside of her home. During the gathering, someone from the tightly-packed crowd pointed a gun in her face. Sickening moment ‘assassin’ points gun in Argentina vice-president’s face ‘but it jams’ The trigger was pulled, a click was heard – but thankfully the gun failed to fire. It was later found that the gun was indeed loaded with five bullets, and the 35-year-old Brazilian man was arrested. And now he has been linked ideologically to the racist killer accused of murdering 10 Afro-Americans in May outside a US grocery store.
via dailystar: ‘Nazi-tattooed’ gunman who tried to kill Argentina’s vice president ‘is church fanatic’
siehe auch: Assassin who pointed gun at Argentina vice president is ‘church-goer’ with Nazi tattoo. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was touching the face of a sailor in the crowd outside her Buenos Aires home last night when a gunman appeared from the crowd and pointed his weapon right between her eyes. The would-be assassin, whose gun jammed when he went to shoot Argentina’s vice president, is reportedly a 35-year-old Brazilian man with a Nazi tattoo. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was greeting supporters outside her home in Buenos Aires on Thursday night (September 1) when a man in the crowd pointed a handgun in her face. The weapon was loaded with five bullets, according to reports, but failed to discharge when the trigger was pulled, sparing the 69-year-old vice president’s life. And now her would-be killer, who has been taken into custody, has been named as 35-year-old Brazilian man Fernando Andre Sabag Montiel. He goes by the name Fernando Salim Cristiano on social media, where he has more than 800 followers and presents himself as a churchgoing Christian. The tattoo is of a Black Sun, or Schwarze Sonne in German, is a type of wheel originally employed in Nazi Germany which first appeared as a design element in a castle remodelled by SS chief Heinrich Himmler; Cristina Fernández: qué se sabe de Fernando Sabag Montiel, el hombre detenido tras apuntar con una pistola a la vicepresidenta argentina. El hombre, identificado como Fernando André Sabag Montiel, fue detenido tras el incidente. Un ciudadano brasileño identificado como Fernando André Sabag Montiel apuntó con un arma a la vicepresidenta de Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, el jueves por la noche, según confirmó la policía. Poco después, el hombre fue detenido por la policía. Imágenes difundidas por canales de televisión del país muestran el momento en el que un sujeto con una pistola apunta a Kirchner al llegar a su residencia del barrio de Recoleta tras una sesión en el Senado. No están claras de momento las motivaciones ni las circunstancias detrás del suceso que el oficialismo ha presentado como un “intento de magnicidio”. En las imágenes parece que el individuo aprieta el gatillo sin que el arma funcione.
