(VIDEO) ARGENTINA SUSPENDS ALL FOOTBALL GAMES AFTER ASSASINATION ATTEMPT ON COUNTRY’S VICE PRESIDENT

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

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All football matches in Argentina were suspended on Friday after an assassination attempt on the country’s vice president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

The Argentinian Football Association (AFA) made the announcement on Thursday night after the attack, which took place in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina.

According to reports, Fernandez de Kirchner was arriving at her home in the Recoleta neighbourhood when a man emerged from a crowd and pointed a gun at her head from close range.

The pistol, which had five bullets in it, was pulled back, but it did not fire properly. A man in his 35s has been apprehended.

Argentina President, Alberto Fernandez declared Friday, Sept. 2, a national holiday, and the AFA announced that all scheduled football events had been postponed.

“The Argentinian Football Association expresses its strongest repudiation of what happened with vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner,” the AFA said in a statement. “We call on society as a whole, warning that violence of any kind is never the solution.”

Watch the clip of the assasination attempt below: