Natalio Alberto Nisman ( Spanish: Natalio Alberto Nisman ; December 5, 1963 , Buenos Aires - January 18, 2015 , Buenos Aires ) - Argentinean federal prosecutor who led the investigation of the explosion in the Jewish center of Buenos Aires (1994) .
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| Date of Birth | December 5, 1963 |
| Place of Birth | Buenos Aires |
| Date of death | January 18, 2015 (51 years old) |
| A place of death | Buenos Aires |
| Citizenship |  Argentina |
| Occupation | lawyer |
| Father | Isaac Nisman |
| Spouse | Sandra Arroyo Salgado |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Prosecution
- 1.2 death
- 2 notes
- 3 References
Biography
Natalio Alberto Nisman was born on December 5, 1963 in Buenos Aires , the son of textile entrepreneur Isaac Nisman. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires , married a federal judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado (Sandra Arroyo Salgado), two daughters - Yara and Cala, who in January 2015 were 7 and 15 years old [1] .
Prosecution activities
In 2004, President of Argentina Nestor Kirchner appointed Nisman to the post of federal prosecutor. In 2008, prosecutor Nisman made a request for the detention of ex-President Carlos Menem , but his most famous case was the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Association of Argentina in Buenos Aires ( AMIA ).
On October 25, 2006, a group of investigators led by Nisman issued an official report accusing the Iranian authorities and the Lebanese Shiite organization of Hezbollah of involvement in the 1994 terrorist attack, and also demanded the arrest of former Iranian President Hashem Rafsanjani and seven other suspects [2] .
Doom
On January 18, 2015, Alberto Nisman was found dead in his home, and the first version of the police was suicide (a Bersa .22 [3] [4] pistol was found next to the body). As part of the investigation, Nisman allegedly discovered ties between the current president of Argentina, Christina Kirchner, and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman with the Iranian authorities, whose special services are suspected of involvement in the 1994 terrorist attack. It is known that on January 19, Nisman was supposed to make a report on this issue at a meeting of parliament. The Argentine newspaper Clarín published the words of the prosecutor, told reporters shortly before his death: “Perhaps they will find me dead because of this” [5] .
In Argentina’s public opinion, the point was that the country's authorities were trying to protect official Iran from charges of involvement in the terrorist attack, as well as to extradite the intentional murder of Nisman as a suicide, which provoked a wave of civil protest. On February 18, in Buenos Aires, a “silence march” was held, dedicated to the memory of the prosecutor, in which up to 400 thousand people took part [6] .
On May 12, 2015, the Argentinean federal court agreed with the prosecution’s arguments and closed the case against President Kirchner on charges of conspiracy to protect Iranian special services suspected of involvement in the 1994 terrorist attack [7] .
On February 29, 2016, the former head of Argentine intelligence, Antonio Stiuso, who had previously worked closely with Nisman, returned from voluntary “exile” and testified in court for seventeen hours about the circumstances of the death of the prosecutor. According to the press, which received separate excerpts from this interrogation, Stiuso accused a group associated with the government of organizing Nisman’s murder, including President Christina Kirchner [8] .
Notes
- ↑ Le procureur argentin Nisman enterré, le doute sur sa mort subsiste (French) . Liberation (29 janvier 2015). Date of treatment February 19, 2015.
- ↑ Iran charged over Argentina bomb . BBC News (October 25, 2006). Date of treatment February 6, 2016.
- ↑ Bersa 22, el arma hallada en la escena de la muerte del fiscal Nisman (Spanish) , La Gaceta (21 de enero de 2015). Date of treatment April 1, 2015.
- ↑ Quién es el colaborador que le prestó el arma a Nisman (Spanish) , Clarín (21 de enero de 2015). Date of treatment April 1, 2015.
- ↑ Morte sospetta per procuratore argentino: accusava governo di proteggere Iran (Italian) . la Repubblica (19 gennaio 2015). Date of treatment February 19, 2015.
- ↑ Cientos de miles de personas desafían a la lluvia para recordar a Nisman (Spanish) . El País (19 de febrero de 2015). Date of treatment February 19, 2015.
- ↑ Jonathan Gilbert. Judges Close Conspiracy Case Against Argentina's President . The New York Times (12 May 2015). Date of treatment May 13, 2015.
- ↑ Jonathan Watts and Uki Goñi. Alberto Nisman: testimony of ex-spy chief swings case towards murder The Guardian (March 2, 2016). Date of treatment March 2, 2016.
Links
- Nikolai Zubov. Argentina does not believe in suicide . Kommersant (January 26, 2015). Date of treatment February 21, 2015.
- AlbertoNisman.org . Date of treatment February 6, 2016.
- Andrew Buncombe. Alberto Nisman shooting: Journalist Damian Pachter flees Argentina in fear for his life after breaking the story . Independent (January 25, 2015). Date of treatment February 19, 2015.