BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine judge on Thursday dismissed the criminal allegations against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that had been brought by Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor who had accused her of conspiring to shield Iranian officials from responsibility for the deadly bombing of a Jewish community center here in 1994.
The judge, Daniel Rafecas, decided that the criminal complaint Mr. Nisman put forward before his mysterious death last month was not sufficient to open an investigation into the president. In a 63-page document released on Thursday detailing his decision, Mr. Rafecas said that the allegations did not “minimally hold up.”
The criminal case had been revived by another prosecutor after Mr. Nisman’s death, seeking to charge the president, the foreign minister and other political supporters of Mrs. Kirchner.
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The office of the prosecutor who revived Mr. Nisman’s criminal case, Gerardo Pollicita, refused to say on Thursday whether he would appeal the decision.
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