PROSECUTOR NISMAN’S DEATH WAS MURDER… SAYS ARGENTINA’S JUDGE.
PROSECUTOR NISMAN’S DEATH WAS MURDER… SAYS ARGENTINA’S JUDGE.
Alberto Nisman, the Argentine
prosecutor who was found dead days after accusing former President Cristina
Fernandez of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre, was murdered, a federal judge said on Tuesday.
In a 656-page ruling, judge Julian Ercolini said there was
sufficient proof to conclude that the shot to the head that killed Nisman in
January 2015 was not self-inflicted. That marked the first time any judge has
said the case was a murder.
Fernandez and others had suggested the death was a suicide, but a prosecutor investigating the case last
year recommended it be pursued as a murder probe. Nisman’s death could not have been a suicide,”
Ercolini wrote in Tuesday’s ruling, which also charged Diego Lagomarsino, a
former employee of Nisman‘s, with accessory to murder. Lagomarsino has
acknowledged lending Nisman the gun that killed him the day before he was to
appear before Congress to detail his allegation against Fernandez.
But he has said Nisman asked him for the gun to protect himself
and his family. Fernandez, now a senator, was indicted for treason earlier this
month over Nisman’s allegations that she worked behind the scenes to clear Iran
of blame for the attack on the AMIA Jewish center, which killed 85 people, in
an effort to normalize relations and clinch a 2013 grains-for-oil deal with
Tehran.
Human rights groups and the former head of Interpol have
criticized that indictment. Tehran has denied links to the attack.
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