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Court Convicts Sabag Montiel and Uliarte in Cristina Kirchner Assassination Attempt, Acquits Carrizo

Written reasons arrive December 9, with lost phone data plus custody lapses still unexplained.

Overview

  • Tribunal Oral Federal No. 6 found Fernando Sabag Montiel guilty of attempted aggravated homicide and illegal weapons possession, sentencing him to 10 years in prison.
  • Brenda Uliarte was convicted as a secondary participant in the attack and received an 8-year prison sentence.
  • The judges acquitted Nicolás Carrizo for lack of sufficient evidence, issuing a unanimous ruling that also rejected defense bids on insanity and incapacity.
  • The court will publish the written grounds on December 9, while investigators never recovered data from Sabag Montiel’s phone after it was blocked and reset, which Gendarmería attributed to PSA mishandling.
  • Unresolved issues include chain-of-custody gaps and policing failures, such as initial handling by militants, hours in an improvised tent, a delayed alert to the on‑call court, and an internal Federal Police audit that remains undisclosed.