An Argentine court orders a renewed investigation into a prosecutor’s accusation that former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner covered up the alleged involvement of Iranians in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.
The aftermath of the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires (photo credit: Newspaper La Nación (photo credit: Argentina/Wikipedia Commons)
In its ruling, the country’s top criminal tribunal accepts a request by a delegation of Argentine Jewish associations to re-examine the charge prosecutor Alberto Nisman made on Jan. 14, 2015, against Kirchner, her Jewish foreign minister Hector Timerman and other officials in her government. Nisman was found dead with a gunshot to the head four days later. Authorities never determined if he was killed or took his own life.
Iran rejected any connection with the attack and refused to turn over the suspects in the case. Kirchner, who was president from 2007-2015, also denied wrongdoing in the case.
Santiago Kaplun, secretary general of the delegation of Jewish organizations, welcomes the court ruling, telling the Todo Noticias cable television channel that “we are very hopeful.”
— AP
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