BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A court in Argentina sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after finding him guilty of attempting to kill powerful former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner three years ago.

The court in Buenos Aires also sentenced the man’s accomplice to eight years in prison, capping a dramatic case that has convulsed and captivated the country since the botched assassination attempt on Sept. 1, 2022, when the main defendant, Fernando Sabag Montiel, squeezed through a crowd outside the ex-president’s home, thrust a loaded gun at her face and pulled the trigger.

The gun did not go off. Fernández, then Argentina’s vice president, was unharmed.

The bewildering episode provoked street protests from Fernández’s die-hard supporters as well as skepticism and

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