Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had a gun pointed at her as she arrived to her residence in Buenos Aires.
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Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was threatened by a person with a gun late Thursday, in what one authorities colleague described as an assassination try, however she was not harmed and no pictures have been fired.
The incident befell on the entrance of Fernandez de Kirchner’s Buenos Aires residence, the place a whole lot of protesters have gathered in latest days to help the previous president, who's within the midst of a corruption trial.
The economic system minister, Sergio Massa, known as the incident an “tried assassination.”
“When hate and violence prevail over debate, societies are destroyed and conditions like these come up: tried assassination,” he stated on Twitter.
A police spokesman informed Reuters that an armed man had been arrested close to the residence and “a weapon was discovered a number of metres from the scene.” He stated the person might be of Brazilian origin.
Tv footage had proven that no pictures have been fired after the person pointed a gun at Fernandez in the course of a crowd. Media famous that the person appeared middle-aged.
The Clarin newspaper reported that the gun was loaded, citing official sources. Reuters couldn't independently affirm this.
Authorities and opposition leaders, in addition to politicians from different Latin American nations, expressed solidarity with Fernandez de Kirchner, who has been a divisive political determine and served as president for 2 phrases between 2007 and 2015.
Her successor, Mauricio Macri, stated the incident required “speedy and profound clarification by justice system and safety forces.”
“Cristina is the sufferer of a felony fascist who doesn't know respect variations,” added Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the front-runner in subsequent month’s presidential election. “Thank God she escaped unhurt.”
However some politicians dismissed the severity of the incident: “This appears to be the clumsy motion of an unbalanced particular person with no connection to politics,” stated lawmaker Martin Tetaz.
Present President Alberto Fernandez is anticipated to handle the nation on tv later Thursday.
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