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Argentine pres vows to discover truth of Nisman’s death

(JTA) – Argentine President Mauricio Macri said he is “determined” to discover the truth about the death of AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman. “Everything that happened made us look weak in the world,” Macri told The Associated Press in an interview published March 17. “But now we are determined to bring what happened to light.” The Argentine judiciary has not yet determined whether Nisman’s shooting death in January 2015 was a homicide or suicide. Macri discussed the Nisman case and the 1994 Jewish center bombing, as well as the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy, during his address Tuesday night to the opening gala of the Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Buenos Aires. Both attacks in the Argentine capital remain unresolved. He also noted that his government, during its first week in power in December, voided an agreement with Iran to jointly investigate the AMIA bombing, calling it “unconstitutional.” Nisman was found dead hours before he was to present evidence to Argentine lawmakers that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner covered up Iran’s role in the AMIA Jewish center bombing, which left 85 dead and hundreds wounded. On March 16, the WJC plenary assembly held a tribute to Nisman led by Rabbi Marcelo Polakoff, who shared the stage with Nisman’s mother, Sara Garfunkel, his ex-wife, Sandra Arroyo Salgado, and his daughter, Lara.

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