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Name of bombed centre carved into man’s back

March 12, 2009 10:24
'AMIA' was cut into Lifschitz's skin

ByAnonymous, Anonymous

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A lawyer who was a former investigator into the 1994 bombing of Buenos Aires’ Jewish community centre was kidnapped on Friday and tortured by men seeking information on the investigation.

Claudio Lifschitz, 43, said three hooded men threw him into the back of a lorry and put a bag over his head. They questioned him on details of the probe into the bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) building in which 85 people died and more than 200 were injured. Mr Lifschitz said his abductors tortured him, burning numbers into his arm and carving the letters “AMIA” into his back while asking about the investigation.

“I heard the noise of a blowtorch, and started to feel a burn on my left arm,” he said. “Then I felt them slicing my back with a knife.”

The investigation into the AMIA bombing — which Argentina, Israel and the US blame on Hizbollah — has dragged on for nearly 15 years with no indictments and widespread allegations of cover-ups and corruption.