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On Jan. 18, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in the bathroom of his luxury apartment in Buenos Aires with one bullet to the head. A handgun was found at the scene, but there was no suicide note and no gunpowder residue on the prosecutor’s hands — raising suspicions about whether Nisman had really turned the gun on himself, as authorities said after his body was found.
Nisman’s death came one day before he was scheduled to testify in a closed hearing about his investigation into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires. He was also supposed to speak about his recent claims that Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and other top officials were involved in covering up Iran’s role in the bombing.
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With Nisman dead, it is unclear how the investigation will continue. Weinstein, the survivor interviewed by NPR, said she isn’t sure investigators will ever find out what really happened that day in 1994. “I hope so. I don’t believe so,” she said.
Thousands of people attend a ceremony Friday, July 17, 1998, held by relatives and friends of victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to mark the fourth anniversary of the bombing. (AP Photo/Gabriel Piko)
