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'Suicide' lawyer buried next to Amia dead

February 5, 2015 12:01
A protester outside a private wake for Nisman

By

Adam Feinstein,

Adam Feinstein

1 min read

Tensions are high between Argentina's Jewish community and the government since prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead on January 18.

Last week, Mr Nisman, who had been investigating the 1994 bombing of the Amia Jewish centre, was laid to rest in the same section of La Tablada - the main Jewish cemetery in Buenos Aires - where many of the 85 killed in the Amia attack are also buried.

For the first time since 2005, Argentina's two main Jewish bodies, Daia and Amia, refused to join last week's Shoah ceremonies at the Foreign Ministry.

They were protesting over Mr Nisman's death and because January 27 marked the second anniversary of the signing of the Argentinian-Iranian Memorandum of Understanding, under which the two countries pledged to jointly probe the Amia attack.