The death of the Jewish Argentine special prosecutor investigating a community centre bombing in 1994 was definitely homicide and not suicide, a federal court in Buenos Aires has confirmed.
The court said Alberto Nisman was murdered in 2015, just hours before he was due to present evidence to the Argentine Congress supporting his view that there had been an official cover-up following the terror attack on the Amia Jewish centre on July 18, 1994.
In a ruling, it said Mr Nisman’s death was the “direct consequence” of his accusations that Argentina’s then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had covered up Iran’s role in the car bombing, which left 85 dead and more than 300 wounded.
In 2004, soon after Mr Nisman’s appointment as special prosecutor in charge of the investigation, he and his daughters began receiving multiple death threats. Two years later he accused the Iranian government of having planned the bomb and Hezbollah of having carried it out.
