The accused of throwing a bottle at Milei spoke: “I regret it, I didn’t want to attack the President”

This Wednesday, after having been arrested yesterday, the man accused of having thrown a bottle at the caravan of the President of the Nation, Javier Milei, spoke and assured that he “did not want to attack against” the head of state and revealed that “he was drunk.” I threw that bottle without seeing if it hit anyone or where the president was, I threw it in that area,” Gaston Mercanzini told federal judge Ariel Lijo, who questioned him after he was arrested on Tuesday. In addition, the defendant explained that he had been going through a very difficult personal situation due to drug use, lack of work, and that he was practically living on the street in Buenos Aires, in addition to the fact that he was estranged from his children after getting divorced.” On the 10th, the day of the episode, I was drunk, I don’t know what crossed my mind. I was hurt to hear that for the president-elect the convertibility plan was good, that affected me a lot. To hear in the square that people applauded that we are in a bad way but that we are going to have a worse time, than the green falcons. I couldn’t see where the car was, only the hats of the grenadiers,” he said. As for his background, he himself recalled the episodes of “gender violence” he had and “damage” for breaking a City Government van.Also, the defendant added: “I regret it, I never did such a thing, I did not want to attack the President, everything indicates that yes, if I had wanted to do it I would have worn a cap and a mask. I didn’t measure the consequences, I was angry about everything that happens, and everything that happens to me. I don’t approve of what I did, I apologize a thousand times to the officer I hurt and to all his relatives who saw that episode on television, I didn’t want to hurt anyone, the next day I realized what happened.” Then, he apologized to the president and his sister: “The only thing I want is to apologize for what I did and wherever I am detained I will ask for psychological assistance,” he said. I didn’t mean to hurt anyone, I didn’t have any intention of doing it. I don’t have a political militancy, the photos that appeared in the media with political leaders were taken from me, nor do they know me,” he said, in relation to the fact that when his identity was known, photos of him with several Kirchnerist officials came out. 

Original source in Spanish