Thousands call for justice at memorial for slain Argentine prosecutor
- 8 years ago
A year after his death, thousands turned out Monday to pay their respects to Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Buenos Aires in a ceremony marked by a single word: justicia.
A candlelight vigil organized by the Jewish community was held at sundown at Buenos Aires’s Plaza Alemania.
Ariel Cohen Sabban, president of the Argentine Jewish umbrella group DAIA, said that Nisman’s death, which many are calling an assassination, “constitutes a new attack that conspires against the possibility of advancing justice” over the 1994 AMIA bombing that left 85 dead and a Jewish community traumatized.
Nisman was investigating Iranian links to the bombing, and was due to testify against former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s alleged coverup of those ties, the night he was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment.
A candlelight vigil organized by the Jewish community was held at sundown at Buenos Aires’s Plaza Alemania.
Ariel Cohen Sabban, president of the Argentine Jewish umbrella group DAIA, said that Nisman’s death, which many are calling an assassination, “constitutes a new attack that conspires against the possibility of advancing justice” over the 1994 AMIA bombing that left 85 dead and a Jewish community traumatized.
Nisman was investigating Iranian links to the bombing, and was due to testify against former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s alleged coverup of those ties, the night he was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment.