The attack against acting Attorney General Mónica Ferrero took place in the early hours of the 28th, around 5 a.m., at her home located in the Jacinto Vera neighborhood of Montevideo.
Two armed individuals entered through the rooftop of a neighboring house into the backyard of the property, where they detonated a grenade (causing a loud noise audible to neighbors and shattering window glass).
At least two shots were fired at a wall, and personal belongings were destroyed before the perpetrators fled.
Ferrero was inside the house but was physically unharmed. The police protection assigned to the prosecutor was positioned at the front of the residence, which facilitated access from the rear.
A few hours later, the police found a white burned-out van near the Miguelete stream (about 10 km [6.2 miles] from the scene), allegedly used in the escape.
Additionally, another vehicle found abandoned in the Marconi neighborhood is being analyzed, possibly related to the strikers.
Police investigators examined a pit in the yard where the perpetrators attempted to hide an explosive device, possibly a grenade.
Frente Amplio doesn't want her
Since she took office as Attorney General, Frente Amplio leaders have harshly attacked her.
When she took office, she replaced Juan Gómez, who was close to the previous Attorney General, Jorge Díaz, who held the position for almost 10 years.
Díaz is Yamandú Orsi's right-hand man in the presidency of the Republic. With Ferrero's arrival at the top of the Prosecutor's Office, there was a timid but positive change.
The leaks that were previously constant have now almost disappeared, and the work of some prosecutors has begun to improve.
Frente Amplio no longer has a pawn like Jorge Díaz or Juan Gómez at the top of the Prosecutor's Office. Now, they have a serious prosecutor who aims for an impartial Prosecutor's Office, and not a grassroots committee as it was with Díaz and Gómez.
The government of Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse has no idea how to stop crime, there is no serious plan, and they have no notion of how to halt the disaster.
In Latin America, attacks against prosecutors usually come from drug trafficking groups or far-left terrorist gangs, such as Colombia's FARC, which over the decades have killed dozens of prosecutors in that country.
