Published on January 21st, 2015 | by LedgerOnline
By Uriel Heilman
(JTA) The mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman seems ripped straight out of a crime thriller.
Nisman the indefatigable prosecutor collecting evidence of culpability in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people was found dead in his apartment just hours before he was to present evidence to Argentinas congress that he said implicated his countrys president and foreign minister in a nefarious cover-up scheme.
The charge? That the two agreed to whitewashTehrans role in the AMIA bombing in exchange for oil shipments to energy-hungry Argentina.
Nismans body was discovered lateSundayin his 13th-floor apartment with a single gunshot wound to the head.
Officials connected to the president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, quickly said evidence pointed to suicide, noting that a .22-caliber pistol and spent cartridge were found near Nismans body.
But the suicide theory was dismissed out of hand on the streets of Buenos Aires and among people around the world familiar with Nisman and his work investigating the AMIA attack. Instead, they said Nisman, 51, was the victim of foul play. The suicide theory lost more groundTuesdaywith the revelation by the prosecutor investigating Nismans death, Viviana Fein, that no traces of gunpowder were found on Nismans hand. There also was no suicide note.
The idea of suicide I think is nonsense, Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, told JTA.
The Jewish community has lost a stalwart hero, and Argentina and all people who pursue the truth and justice with a passionate zeal have lost a great fighter, Foxman said. Throughout the years, all kinds of forces have tried to put him down, to destroy him. Every time he uncovered new stuff or exposed some interests that werent happy, they set the courts against him or they set the police against him. And every time they tried to put him down, he fought it, he got up and beat them.
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