President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner today referred to the death of AMIA lead prosecutor Alberto Nisman just over a week ago, asserting that she did not change her thoughts on the cause of death from suicide to murder as the events unfolded.
The head of state recalled during a public broadcast that she was shocked by the news received in the early hours of Monday January 19, initially believing that it was a «joke». Later CFK released a letter via Facebook in which she examined the motives for taking one’s life, prior to commenting on Nisman’s situation.
But Cristina was adamant that a second letter, in which she firmly stated she did not believe it was suicide, did not contradict her earlier position.
«The intended message was that in the second letter I had changed my mind. You can see very clearly with a quick read of the letter that in the first one, when I speak in general terms about suicide in the second paragraph I put ‘suicide’ between question marks,» she pointed out.
The President also maintained her position on Nisman’s accusation text, which implicated herself and other government figures and allies in an alleged cover-up of Iranian citizens role in the AMIA bombing of 1994.
Claiming that the allegations contained «absurd arguments,» CFK affirmed that «once the accusation was released, on January 20, nobody could believe that a lawyer, let alone a prosecutor, had written it.»
Source: Buenos Aires Herald