The Argentinian Supreme Court has voted to re-open the investigation into the 1994 terrorist attack on the Amia Jewish community centre.
Though the car-bomb attack in the heart of Buenos Aires killed 85, injured hundreds and reduced the building to rubble, no one has ever been convicted for the crime. The federal judge who led the investigation, Juan José Galeano, was impeached in 2005 after being accused of “serious irregularities”.
“There was a judge who, when investigating the case, lost his impartiality,” Supreme Court president Ricardo Lorenzetti said last week. “But there is a part of the investigation that the court can save.
“The court is unable to annul the entire investigation, but only the part afflicted with the lack of objectivity in Judge Jose Galeano’s work,” the court said in its 90-page ruling. “We wish to convey a message against the injustice hovering over the case.”
One aspect of the case that will be examined is the role of Carlos Telleldín, a former car mechanic who was suspected of providing the explosives-filled van to the bombers. He allegedly received $400,000 to testify falsely against local suspects in the case.
