Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was buried Thursday in the same cemetery as the victims of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires.
The Times of Israel reports:
On Thursday morning, a police escort led the funeral procession to the Tablada Jewish Cemetery. Along the procession route, people waved Argentine flags and held signs that said “Justice,” “Thank you, Nisman” and “We all are Nisman” in Spanish. Some chanted Argentina’s national anthem.
Nisman’s grave was located in the “Martyrs Section,” where the victims of the AMIA Jewish center attack are buried. Eighty-five people were killed in the Buenos Aires bombing; some are calling Nisman the 86th victim.
Eulogies were presented by the writer and philosopher Santiago Kovadloff and Waldo Wolff, vice president of the DAIA umbrella Jewish communal organization in Argentina. The mourners included Nisman’s two daughters, Lara and Kala; Nisman’s mother, Sara Garfunkel; and his ex-wife, Sandra Arroyo Salgado.
David Horovitz, the editor-in-chief of the Times, said that Nisman had said that he’d been repeatedly threatened by Iran over the years.
Damian Pachter, the journalist who broke the story of Nisman’s death, fled to Israel earlier this week because he “he felt ‘pursued by the Argentine government’ and that his life was in danger in Argentina.”
Nisman died nearly two weeks ago of a bullet wound to the head under mysterious circumstances shortly before he was to testify before Argentina’s congress about the role President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner played in collaborating with Iran to cover up Iran’s role in the AMIA bombing. Earlier this week, Andres Oppenheimer of The Miami Herald reported that Nisman had tied Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the terror attack.
In a special analysis for The Tower last week, Eamonn MacDonagh wrote:
Finally, we who live in Argentina are filled with an enormous sense of sadness and rage. We have to try to come to terms with the fact that that we live in a country where a state prosecutor can die in mysterious circumstances just days after making grave accusations against the President and Foreign Minister. The reaction from the authorities has been bluff and bluster. In the case of the President, she released one rambling missive long on conspiracy theories and personal reminiscence, and short on compassion and the taking of effective measures to restore public confidence in the administration of justice. Now she’s produced another—equally self-referential and bizarre in tone—in which she suggests that Nisman was murdered on the instructions of his foreign masters in order to create a scandal damaging to her and to her government.
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