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A man has been arrested after pointing a gun at Argentina's former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as she greeted supporters outside her home.
Footage appears to show a man in a crowd aim the gun at the face of the vice president at close range - but the weapon does not fire.
Ms de Kirchner was not hurt in the incident outside her Buenos Aires home.
The politician is in the midst of a corruption trial and was returning from court. She denies the charges.
Argentina's economy minister, Sergio Massa, called the attempted shooting an "attempted assassination".
"When hate and violence prevail over debate, societies are destroyed and situations like these arise: attempted assassination," he said in a tweet.