The alleged perpetrator of the attack against the presidential motorcade after the inauguration of Javier Milei, which took place last Sunday in Buenos Aires, has been arrested, according to official sources reported this Tuesday. “The City Police have just arrested the alleged attacker of President Javier Milei. He is already at the disposal of Justice,” the Minister of Security of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Waldo Wolff, indicated on social networks.
The arrest occurred at the doors of a local television station by members of the City Police and the Argentine Federal Police, who were investigating the attack, which occurred at the time that Milei was traveling in a convertible vehicle between Congress, after the swearing-in. presidential, and the Casa Rosada (seat of Government). The detainee was transferred by the security forces and will be charged with the crime of aggravated public intimidation.
The alleged perpetrator was identified by the Buenos Aires minister as Gastón Ariel Mercanzini, after a security camera captured a person throwing a glass bottle on the caravan in which the head of state and his sister and main advisor, Karina, were traveling. Milei, now general secretary of the Presidency.
The object passed over the officials and hit one of the police officers guarding the caravan, who was injured on the left side of the neck; When it was found that neither the president nor his sister were injured, the caravan continued on its way.
“He who makes them pays: Mercanzini imprisoned. Justice, Nation and City, together against the criminals who believe they continue to live in the country of impunity. We said it: he who makes them, pays for them,” reiterated the new Argentine minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, condemning the attack on social networks. A day after the attack, Bullrich stated that she contacted Judge Ariel Lijo, in charge of the case, for a “rapid investigation” of the case.
