BUENOS AIRES, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The first journalist to report on the death of a Argentine state prosecutor, who was investigating the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, said on Saturday that he had fled Argentina fearing for his life.
“I’m leaving because my life is in danger. My phones are tapped,” Damian Pachter, a journalist with the Buenos Aires Herald, told the website Infobae.
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Nisman had claimed that President Fernandez opened a secret back channel to Iran to cover up Tehran’s alleged involvement in the bombing and gain access to Iranian oil needed to help close Argentina’s $7 billion per year energy deficit.
Fernandez’s government called the accusation absurd. (Reporting by Nicolas Misculin; Writing by Anthony Esposito; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
