BUENOS AIRES — Tens of thousands of Argentines flowed into the center of this city on Wednesday for a demonstration in honor of Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death last month has gripped the country and highlighted tensions over the government’s handling of the crisis stemming from accusations he made against Argentina’s president.
A group of prosecutors organized the march in homage to Mr. Nisman, the special prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here that left 85 people dead. Opposition political figures and Mr. Nisman’s former wife, Sandra Arroyo Salgado, a prominent judge, participated as rain fell.
The march, in a country sharply divided over his death, reflected the extent to which President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been put on the defensive since Mr. Nisman was found dead on Jan. 18 with a bullet wound to the head, after accusing her of trying to forge a secret deal to shield Iranians from responsibility for the 1994 attack.
Many people attending the so-called silent march were soaked by the time they reached the streets around the presidential palace on Wednesday evening. The demonstration was impressive in its reserved tone, with thousands just murmuring. If someone started yelling, someone else would yell, “Silence!”
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Some in the vicinity of the march, however, thought change could be achieved in other ways.
“There are other forms of protest and finding solutions, like voting,” said Sebastián Martínez, 35, a jewelry salesman. “You don’t see things like Nisman happening in other countries; they just don’t reach this point.”
Frederick Bernas and Charles Newbery contributed reporting.
