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Cristina Kirchner published a video of the stone attack on her office in Congress: “Someone planned it”

For the second time, the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, published images of the attack on his office in Congress last week, while the Government’s agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was being debated in the Chamber of Deputies. This time, he revealed the records of a security camera in the area and also showed how a Senate collaborator captured the moment when the stones broke the windows of his office.

“The video that you are going to see shows you in real time, from the outside and from the inside (in the latter case, only 12 minutes after the stone began), the attack against the vice president of the Argentine Republic that someone planned and commanded to execute. Serious”, wrote Cristina Kirchner in the tweet to which he added the records.

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These videos from the security camera of the Federal Police, located in the corner of Entre Ríos and Hipólito Yrigoyen, they mark the beginning of the attack at 15.02. In that first part, a group of people is seen chopping up a piece of asphalt and then throwing it against Congress, while the demonstration called by left-wing groups against the IMF takes place.

According to these images, at 3:07 p.m. the attackers throw the red paint bombs to “point to target”: the former president’s office.

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Next, the screen of the video that presents Cristina Kirchner It is divided in two. The vice president details that at 3:12 p.m., after leaving the office, a collaborator of the Presidency of the Senate enters and places a cell phone on a coffee table to record “the attack from within.” With this, the former president sought to clear up doubts about how these internal images had been obtained, after they were used for the first material she published, two and a half minutes long, with her voice-over.

After that, the recordings of both cameras are exposed -the security one and the one inside the office-, which expose the group made up of some hooded people and others, not; who point against the windows and who throw the stones both with their hands and with a rubber band.

The vice president marks the arrival of the police at 3:21 p.m. “Twenty minutes after the attack began, the first police officers arrive,” he points out.

Eight suspects identified

Those suspected of causing this destruction in Congress and in Cristina Kirchner’s office have already been identified by the security forces, based on the footage taken by the cameras at the scene and the use of a program from the Ministry of Security, which linked their faces with their personal data and their addresses. These are eight young people who would have no known political affiliation, According to what was reported today by the Telam Agency.

This was the external part of the vice president’s office. (Enrique Garcia Medina).

It is expected that in the next few hours the federal judge Maria Eugenia Capuchetti -who intervenes in the case together with federal prosecutor Carlos Rívolo- analyze the reports and the summary to determine the steps to follow. Last week, the magistrate had ordered test measures to identify those responsible.

Frictions in the ruling party for the response to the attacks

The attack on Cristina Kirchner’s office even deepened tensions in the Frente de Todos, because there were complaints of The Campora by lack of official repudiation of what happened, beyond the president Alberto Fernandez communicated with his deputy privately and that the Minister of Security, Hannibal Fernandezassured that he was “doomed” to find the people who caused the damage.

Attack on Cristina Kirchner's office.  (Marcos Brindicci - AFP).

Attack on Cristina Kirchner’s office. (Marcos Brindicci – AFP).

Today Andres Larroque, the Buenos Aires minister, who is also secretary general of the group led by Máximo Kirchner, understood how “serious” that the government “he decided to sidestep the issue and downplay it.” Over the weekend, Larroque himself had written a tweet where he spoke of the “silence and parsimony” of the President and his closest circle of officials in the face of what happened.

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