Prosecutor Marcelo Colombo has filed an appeal to reverse the end of the case against the current Vice President of Argentina and former head of government, Cristina Kirchner, from the accusation of covering up those accused of the attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, in 1994 .
The appeal joins that made last week by the Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (Daia), which represents the Jewish community in the South American country and is one of the parties involved in the process.
Another interested party is representatives of the families of the 85 killed in the attack on the headquarters of the Associação Mutual Israelita Argentina (Amia), which was located in downtown Buenos Aires. The group also appealed against Kirchner’s acquittal.
On the last 7th, the Federal Oral Court 8, which was supposed to judge the former president and other former members of the Argentine government, closed the process unanimously, considering that the signature, on January 27, 2013, of a memorandum with Iran “did not constitute a crime”.
The document called for the creation of a special commission to jointly investigate the attack on the headquarters of Amia, which the Argentine courts attributed to members of the Iranian government and the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah.
The complaint against Kirchner held that the purpose of the agreement was to overturn Interpol’s “red alerts” for the capture of the accused abroad.
The indictment against the current vice president and members of the former government she led dates back to 2015, when prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the attack, pointed out that the then head of government and allies tried to cover up Iranian suspects by signing the document .
Nisman, however, turned up dead, shot in the head, just four days after filing the complaint. The memorandum never came into effect, since, despite having been ratified by the Argentine Congress, it was never approved in Iran. In the middle of last year, Kirchner asked for the process to be overturned in court, alleging, among other reasons, political interference in the process.
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