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The owner of the studio that was rented by the man who was arrested in the failed assassination attempt of Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández revealed that the suspect’s home was filthy and littered with sex toys, including vibrators and a leather strap.
Sergio Paroldi, 46, says he was shocked by an image of Brazilian national Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, 35, after he had been arrested in front of Fernández’s home Thursday night.
Federal police agents searched the home and seized several boxes that contained 100 bullets.
‘Yesterday I came home late. I turned on the TV to see what was known about the attack on Cristina and suddenly I saw a photo of my tenant on the news,’ he told Argentine newspaper La Nacion on Friday. ‘It was Fernando!’
Paroldi said he ‘still can’t believe’ Sabag Montiel is the same person who can be seen in a video pointing his gun at the vice president.
Fernández, who served as president from 2007 to 2015 and was previously the first lady to her president husband Néstor Kirchner from 2003 to 2007, is in the middle of a corruption trial and was returning home from court.
Sabag Montiel held the weapon just inches from her face when he pulled the trigger. It got jammed while she ducked as a bevy of people around her shouted and then overpowered Sabag Montiel.
Montiel (pictured) was arrested after allegedly holding the handgun at the politician’s face outside her home in Buenos Aires on Thursday night
Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, who was arrested Thursday night after he attempted to murder the vice president of Argentina, was renting a studio located in the back of a house (center) located in the Buenos Aires town of San Martín. The owner told La Nacion newspaper that Sabag Montiel’s home was dirty and filled with sex toys
The gun was held straight in the politician’s face. It appears that the suspect pulled the trigger at Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández, but she was not hurt
A box with bullets was seized by authorities Friday while searching the studio that Sabag Montiel had been renting for eight months
Paroldi was accompanied by his best friend Fabricio Pierruchi and two other friends, and went to his local police precinct around 3am to alert cops that Sabag Montiel was living on his property.
‘What is most surprising, apart from the smell and dirt, is the amount of fetish products. We had no idea about this facet of him,’ Pierruchi said.
Paroldi had been renting the studio to Sabag Montiel for eight months after a married couple recommended the suspect.
While conversations, if any at all, were kept to the bare minimum, Paroldi described Sabag Montiel as a polite person who didn’t appear to have any issues and wasn’t known by people in the neighborhood.
‘He didn’t look crazy in the least. He was always very polite,’ he said. ‘He called me ‘Sir’, always with respect. That’s why we’re so surprised.
‘I hardly saw him. He always went in and out alone. Just a few weeks ago she appeared with a redhead. I’ve seen her come in two or three times. And I thought: “it’s good that he now has a girlfriend.”‘
Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández had a gun held in her face as she got out of a car. her home has been mobbed with protesters and supporters in recent days, after she was accused of defrauding the state. Last week she was forced to order demonstrators to scatter after her property was ‘besieged’
The suspect has a tattoo of a large black sun on his elbow, a symbol originally used by Nazi Germany and later by neo-Nazis and is associated with Nazi occultism
The gun (pictured) which was fired at Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández, according to local media outlets
Supporters of Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernández outside her home following her assassination attempt
Paroldi fears he may have put himself in harm’s way and that Nazi groups may seek to carry out revenge because he informed the police where Sabag Montiel was living.
A photo of Sabag Montiel shows the neo-Nazi tattoo that covers the area around his left elbow. The symbol, Schwarze Sonne in German, is a type of sun wheel originally employed in Nazi Germany which first appeared as a design element in a castle remodeled by SS chief Heinrich Himmler.
It became widely used by neo-Nazis in the late 20th century and often appears on extremist flags and posters.
Montiel is led away by police officers after the attempted attack on Thursday evening before he was overpowered by security
A friend of Sabag Montiel told Argentine television station Telefe that he was not surprised that he had attempted to murder Fernández, who was president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015.
The man, who identified himself as Mario, also told the network that he had not seen Sabag Montiel in 10 months, when he saw him going to a home to purchase a gun.
They met in 2004 after joining an ‘urban subculture group,’ where its members would often pick on him because of his physical appearance.
Mario recalled that Sabag Montiel finally snapped one day after being bullied so much, that he attacked the group leader and left him lying on the ground.
‘There are a lot of things that come to mind now. He was always an outcast and an outcast from the groups, so it was to be expected,’ Mario said. ‘I don’t know if at this level, but it was to be expected. When there’s more repression, there’s more revolution. He no longer had anything to lose.’