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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Argentine court sentences a former couple to years in prison over botched assassination of ex-VP

Argentina Fernandez Trial - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A court in Argentina sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after finding him guilty of attempting to kill powerful former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner three years ago.

The court in Buenos Aires also sentenced the man's accomplice to eight years in prison, capping a dramatic case that has convulsed and captivated the country since the botched assassination attempt on Sept. 1, 2022, when the main defendant, Fernando Sabag Montiel, squeezed through a crowd outside the ex-president's home, thrust a loaded gun at her face and pulled the trigger.

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