Fernando Andre Sabag Montiel, the attacker who, according to the police, tried to assassinate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Thursday, had a criminal record.
This Thursday, in one of the most sober neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, the vice president, who for the tenth consecutive night returned to her house in the midst of the vigil of hundreds of her militants, pointed it at her head.
Although he was carrying a pistol loaded with five bullets, after pulling the trigger, he did not fire.
Sabag Montiel, a 35-year-old man born in Brazil and with Argentine nationality, managed to get within inches of the Argentine vice president among the crowd that has been waiting for her at the door of her house since last Monday.
According to the information provided by the authorities, the 380-caliber weapon that he fired on the former president's forehead did not have a bullet in the exit chamber.
The man had loaded a cartridge with five shots, but he did not have the pistol ready to fire.
The authorities, who arrested him on the spot, still do not explain why he failed.
Sabag Montiel already had a history of carrying weapons.
The attacker had been arrested on March 17, when the police saw him sitting in a car without the rear license plate.
The agents' report describes that, when opening the door to show his documents, he dropped a 35-centimeter knife that he said he used to defend himself.
When asked about the missing rear license plate, the man showed the loose license plate and blamed it on a recent crash.
The detainee has no active taxes or bank accounts.
According to business records, he was a driver and dedicated to delivering application orders.
His inscription describes that he was engaged in "non-scheduled commuter free-supply passenger motor transportation service."
The car he was working on matches the black Chevrolet he was arrested in six months ago.
"Such a reality moves the entire Argentine people," said President Alberto Fernández after confirming that the attacker's shot missed for reasons still unexplained.
The reason has not been revealed either.
"Cristina remains alive because for a reason not yet technically confirmed, the weapon, which had five bullets, did not fire despite being triggered," he said in a televised message, and asked the judge investigating the fact to protect the life of the accused.
Argentina has spent 10 nights focused on a corner of the most sober neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Recoleta, where the militants of the vice president stand guard after their latest legal problems.