Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said the complaint against president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and other Kirchnerites for allegedly covering up Iran’s involvement in 1994 AMIA Jewish community centre bombing was “ludicrous, absurd, ridiculous, unconstitutional.” He pointed finger at those “who seek to destabilize the government.”
Capitanich joined Secretary General to the Presidency Alberto Fernández, Defence Minister Agustín Rossi and Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli who have described the accusation as “ridiculous” and pointed out that it was part of an intern conflict within the Intelligence office.
“The president has always strongly advocated for the truth behind this painful event. The main principles of her administration, and those of Néstor Kirchner’s, have been Memory, Truth and Justice,” the chief of ministers said to reporters in his daily press conference at the government house.
He stressed that Ms. Kirchner has sought the truth behind the 1994 terrorist attack even before being president, as a lawmaker. Capitanich defended the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Argentina and Iran in 2013 saying it was designed to allow Judge Canicoba Corral to take testimony from the suspects in Tehran.
The official denounced “a clear, obvious alliance” between ex Intelligence Secretary agents with members of international intelligence that seeks to “destabilize the government, in a cleary coup attempt.”
He accused “certain members of the Judiciary” of colluding with “concentrated media outlets and economic corporations” in an “active coup-mongering” strategy.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald