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Tuesday 7 November 2017

New Argentina probe says prosecutor Nisman was murdered

By A. CALATRAVA team said there was no the other one placed the
Associated Press concrete evidence it was gun on his head and shot
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina a homicide, the federal him. It was about 2:46 a.m.
(AP) — A new police re- police said the prosecu- on a Sunday.
port has dramatically re- tor shot himself in his bath- The investigation listed key
vived one of the greatest room. evidence that wasn’t men-
criminal mysteries in Ar- Federal prosecutor Edu- tioned in previous reports:
gentine history — the pos- ardo Taiano told the AP Nisman’s nasal septum
sible murder of a crusading that Nisman’s death is was broken. He had suf-
prosecutor that has roused “the most complicated” fered blows to his hip and
grave suspicions about a criminal case he has ever other areas. Ketamine, a
president and added to investigated. Taiano, who substance with strong an-
doubts about the probe took over the stalled case esthetic power, was in his
into the country’s most from another judge in body.
deadly terrorist attack. 2016 following a Supreme The new report concludes
An investigation by the In this May, 2013 photo, Alberto Nisman talks to journalists in Court order, ordered a the attackers tried to stage
country’s border police Buenos Aires, Argentina. An investigation by border police has multidisciplinary border a suicide, but it notes that
agency has concluded concluded in 2017 that Nisman was murdered just days after police team to provide a other experts through-
that the man who led that accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez of covering up the fresh look for an investiga- out the series of probes
terror probe was murdered role of Iranian officials in the 1994 bombing that killed 85 at a tion that had been highly never found any traces of
Jewish center.
just four days after he for- (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) questioned for mishandling gunpowder on Nisman’s
mally accused then-Pres- of evidence and other ir- hands.
ident Cristina Fernandez Nisman, 51, was found murdered because of regularities. Taiano said The 1994 bombing of the
of covering up the role of dead on Jan. 18, 2015, with them. It triggered anti-gov- that the agency, whose AMIA Jewish community
former Iranian officials who a bullet in his right temple. ernment protests ahead of main role is to guard bor- center in Buenos Aires killed
had been charged in the A .22 caliber pistol was the 2015 presidential elec- ders and fight drug traffick- 85 people and injured hun-
1994 bombing of a Jew- found next to him. tion. ing, was chosen because dreds. Fernandez’s gov-
ish community center that Coming just days after Nis- Fernandez has insistently it hadn’t been involved ernment struck a 2013 ac-
killed 85 people. man challenged Fernan- denied any wrongdoing in the earlier, much-ques- cord with Iran portrayed as
The new report, which was dez, the death became a and says her government tioned probe.The border a way to reach the truth
obtained by The Associat- politically charged contro- had no role in the prosecu- police report says Nisman behind the attack, but
ed Press, bases its conclu- versy. Allies of Fernandez tor’s death. The initial po- was beaten by two peo- the deal, which was ap-
sions on controversial new suggested Nisman took lice reports and autopsies ple who drugged him and proved by Congress, was
evidence and sharply con- his own life because he concluded there was no placed him in front of his later ruled unconstitutional
tradicts earlier official find- couldn’t back up his alle- sign anyone else had been bathtub. While one of the by an Argentine court. Nis-
ings that Alberto Nisman gations. Many other Argen- present when Nisman died. attackers held him under man believed Fernandez
likely killed himself. tines insisted he had been While the national forensics the armpits “as in a hug,” was using the deal with
Police: Iran to secretly negotiate
and help shield the Iranian
19-year-old shoots, kills student at Brazil school officials allegedly behind
the attack.Taiano told the
AP that he will compare
SAO PAULO (AP) — A entered the victim’s class- try, though a 14-year-old vances. the new report with pre-
19-year-old in central Bra- room just as school was student opened fire in a “With each refusal, he vious ones and decide
zil sneaked into his former beginning and opened fire classroom last month in the became angrier, so love whether to treat Nisman’s
school on Monday and with a revolver.Raphaella Goias capital of Goiania. turned to hate and for a death as a murder, suicide
shot a student 11 times, kill- Noviski Romano, 16, died Two students died and four year he has planned to kill or induced suicide. His de-
ing her, authorities said. on the spot, a statement people were wounded in her,” Rafaela Azzi, a police cision, which will be sent to
Wearing a mask, Misael from the state’s Depart- that attack. Students said inspector, told the G1 news a judge, will guide the next
Pereira de Olair jumped ment of Education said. the shooter had been bul- portal. Azzi said that all 11 steps of the investigation.
the wall of the May 13 State The department gave the lied.In Monday’s attack, shots were to the face. A report by forensic ex-
School in Alexania, a town suspect’s name as simply police said the suspect ap- Pereira de Olair was caught perts on behalf of Nisman’s
in Goias state, accord- Misael Pereira.Such school peared to have become as he fled the scene by of- family in 2015 also argued
ing to the press office of shootings are rare in Latin enraged after the victim ficers who were responding that the prosecutor did not
the state’s civil police. He America’s largest coun- rejected his romantic ad- to the emergency call. q shoot himself. q