The request was issued by Judge Maria Capuchetti, who is in charge of the case’s investigation, after she learned from the Ministry of Security that a woman had contacted the vice president on Monday afternoon and threatened to kill her.
The vocal death threat was originally published by online news source Infobae.
In an effort to pinpoint the precise area of the call’s placement and, perhaps, identify the caller, authorities have been reviewing the recorded phone conversation.
A federal court judge in Argentina has called for increased security presence for Vice President Cristina Fernández (pictured greeting supporters September 8) after the Ministry of Security reported she received a death threat phone call Monday, 11 days after she was nearly assassinated by Brazilian national Fernando Sabag
A gun held by Brazilian national Fernando Sabag is pointed at the face of Vice President Fernández while she greeted supporters in front of her home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta
Fernández, who served as first lady to her president husband Néstor Kirchner from 2003 to 2007, and then as president herself from 2007 to 2015, is currently in the middle of a corruption trial. She was returning home from court the night of September 1 when she survived the assassination attempt.
Brazilian national Fernando Sabag, 35, approached her, drew his gun in front of her face and pulled the trigger. Fortunately for Fernández, the loaded gun got jammed.
Sabag was taken into custody at the scene and his girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, 23, who was standing near the scene of the assassination attempt – despite telling the police that she had not seen him in two days – was arrested three days later.
Each defendant been charged with attempted homicide.
Sabag has refused to talk to authorities about the motive behind the murder attempt, while Uliarte has said that she was not aware that Sabag would try to kill the vice president.
Fernando Sabag has refused to answer questions as to why he wanted to murder Vice President Cristina Fernández
Brenda Uliarte was taken into custody September 4 by Federal Police agents at a train station in the capital, Buenos Aires. She is the girlfriend of Fernando Sabag, who nearly shot and killed Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández before his gun got jammed. It was revealed Monday that she sent messages to a friend about the plot to assassinate Fernández
Among the evidence recovered from the home rented by Fernando Sabag was 100 bullets
The Bersa .32 gun that was recovered from the scene after Fernando Sabag pointed it at Vice President Cristina Fernández and tried to kill her before it got jammed
Investigators analyzing Uliarte’s confiscated cellphone revealed Monday that the couple where going to assassinate Vice President Fernández on August 27 while she was interacting with supporters at an amphitheater near her home.
‘No, it’s not that she notices it, the issue is that there is a camera from C5N [a local television station], and there are few people, and people are leaving,’ Sabag texted Uliarte around midnight on August 27. ‘And that was the moment, now it is too late …’
The would-be assassin sent his girlfriend another message which read: ‘Do you understand? Later we are going to see on TV to see what happened because when she got in, they followed her and that’s where it should have been.’
In an additional message, Sabag told Uliarte: “No, she went inside me … I touched (the governor of Bueno Aires) Axel Kicillof on the back and he got into a Toyota Etios, ah, and he left, what a mess. She’s upstairs but I don’t think she’ll come out, so she’s already gone, leave, I’m going there, stay there. Don’t bring anything.’
Authorities on Monday arrested Agustina Díaz, 21, a friend of Uliarte, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Miguel after conducting three search warrant operations that led to the confiscation of three mobile phones.
A source with knowledge of the investigation told La Nacion newspaper that Díaz and Uliarte are very close friends.
Uliarte saved Díaz’s phone number under the moniker, ‘the love of my life,’ and a string of audio and text messages revealed that Uliarte shared the assassination plot with Díaz.
Uliarte also contacted Díaz after Sabag failed to carry out the hit job on Fernández so that she could remain quiet about it.
‘She was a person of extreme confidence for Brenda,’ the source said.