By Crayton Moorehead
Netflix has launched a documentary series focusing on the murder of Argentine AMIA bombing prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was murdered five years ago this month.
Nisman had been investigating the worst terror outrage in the history of Latin America — streaming giant Netflix unveiled its new documentary series “The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy” in its latest offerings for 2020.
“Nisman spent more than a decade probing the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in the Argentine capital, and then later exposed the role of former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her colleagues in a cover-up of Iran’s responsibility for the atrocity,” according to algemeiner.com. “Hours before he was due to unveil a complaint against the Kirchner government over its alleged collusion with Iran on Jan. 19, 2015, Nisman’s lifeless body was discovered in his Buenos Aires apartment. The Kirchner government falsely maintained that Nisman’s assassination was a suicide until an independent police investigation in May 2017 established beyond doubt that he had been murdered.”
In episode one, which debuted yesterday, “Conspiracy theories abound when Alberto Nisman is found dead, hours before he planned to present the results of his investigation into the AMIA bombing.”
In 2015, Nisman “publicly accused Argentina’s then-president (and newly sworn-in vice president), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of making a deal to absolve the perpetrators of the attacks, then covering up that agreement. Nisman planned to present his findings before lawmakers, according to The New York Times, but he was found dead within a week of his announcement, and just one day before he was scheduled to testify,” re ported refinery29.com. “Nisman’s death sparked international controversy, the Times reports. Political demonstrations began in Argentina as many argued that Nisman was murdered — anti-government protesters even suspected the Kirchner administration of being involved, though officials denied the accusations. Others, many Kirchner’s supporters, believed Nisman killed himself.”
Nisman “apparently had collected highly sensitive information on the Iran connection to one of Argentina’s worst and deadliest terrorist attacks, on 18 July 1994, against a Jewish community organization, AMIA, in downtown Buenos Aires left dozens killed and hundreds injured, and was prepared to go public before a congressional committee,” noted en.mercopress.com. “The information apparently proved or had evidence of a connection between the Iran involvement in the AMIA attack, and later of an Iran/Argentina “cover up plot” between Teheran and the administration of president Cristina Fernandez. However Nisman never made it to Congress because on 18 January 2015 he was found dead with a shot in the head at his apartment in Puerto Madero.”
