“I don’t understand why he did it,” says Cristina Kirchner’s attacker’s girlfriend 0:50 (CNN) — Fernando Sabag Montiel, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was charged Friday by the attempted murder night Federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and prosecutor Carlos Rívolo announced the charges against Sabag Montiel at the Palermo Federal Police station where he is being held. Sabag Montiel did not testify. Asked about his black eye, he replied that he was hit when protesters knocked him down in front of the vice president’s apartment where the incident occurred. Sabag Montiel is 35 years old, was born on January 13, 1987 in the state of Sao Paulo, in Brazil, but has resided there since 1993, sources from the country’s Migration Directorate reported. The defendant had permission to carry weapons, reported the National Agency for Controlled Materials (Anmac). Sabag Montiel has already had problems with the Justice: the Police reported that he was arrested for “use of an improper weapon” for carrying a large knife in 2021.