FILE PHOTO: Former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner signs a book as she arrives at her house after Argentina's Supreme Court upheld her guilty verdict for defrauding the state, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 10, 2025. REUTERS/Pedro Lazaro Fernandez/File photo
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina's leading opposition leader and a two-time former president, has petitioned a lower court to allow her to serve a sentence for corruption under house arrest, citing how several years ago she narrowly survived an assassination attempt.
The petition, which Kirchner shared on X on Friday, said that for security reasons she should be allowed to serve her six-year sentence at her home in Buenos Aires. She described the threat she might face as a former president and how during the corruption trial in 2022, she was the target of an assassination attempt that failed when the gunman's pistol, inches from her head, did not fire.
