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Former Argentina president faces fresh inquiry into bombing cover-up claims
Source: Associated Press
Former Argentina president faces fresh inquiry into bombing cover-up claims
Associated Press
Friday 30 December 2016 03.45 GMT
An Argentinian court on Thursday ordered a renewed investigation into a prosecutor’s accusation that former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner covered up the alleged involvement of Iranians in a bombing that killed 85 people.
The attack on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 wounded hundreds of others.
The country’s top criminal tribunal accepted a request by a coalition of Argentinian Jewish associations to re-examine the charge against Fernández, her foreign minister Héctor Timerman and other officials in her government.
Prosecutor Alberto Nisman made the charge against Fernández on 14 January 2015. He was found dead with a gunshot to the head four days later. Authorities never determined if he was killed or took his own life.
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Associated Press
Friday 30 December 2016 03.45 GMT
An Argentinian court on Thursday ordered a renewed investigation into a prosecutor’s accusation that former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner covered up the alleged involvement of Iranians in a bombing that killed 85 people.
The attack on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 wounded hundreds of others.
The country’s top criminal tribunal accepted a request by a coalition of Argentinian Jewish associations to re-examine the charge against Fernández, her foreign minister Héctor Timerman and other officials in her government.
Prosecutor Alberto Nisman made the charge against Fernández on 14 January 2015. He was found dead with a gunshot to the head four days later. Authorities never determined if he was killed or took his own life.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/30/former-argentina-president-faces-fresh-inquiry-into-bombing-cover-up-claims