Police stand guard outside the residence of Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Buenos Aires on September 2, 2022. (LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A man tried to kill Argentina's politically powerful Vice President Cristina Fernández outside her home, but the handgun misfired, the country's president said.The man was quickly overpowered by her security officers in the incident Thursday night, officials said.President Alberto Fernández, who is not related to the vice president, a former president herself, said the pistol did not discharge when the man tried to fire it."A man pointed a firearm at her head and pulled the trigger," the president said in a national broadcast following the incident.
He said the firearm was loaded with five bullets but "didn’t fire even though the trigger was pulled."The vice president did not appear to have suffered any injury, and the man was overpowered within seconds as he stood among a crowd of her supporters.A video grab taken from footage of AFP TV on September 1, 2022, shows a man who attempted to shoot Argentina Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner being held in a police vehicle outside her residence in Buenos Aires. (ELENA BOFFETTA/AFPTV/AFP Gina De Bai, a witness who was near the vice president during the incident, told The Associated Press she heard "the sound of the trigger being pulled." She said she didn’t realize it was a handgun until the man was rushed by security personnel.President Fernández called it "the most serious incident since we recovered democracy" in 1983 after a military dictatorship and urged political leaders, and society at large, to repudiate the attempted shooting.The attack came as the vice.