Prosecutor Sabrina Samer says new information began to arrive in the last few weeks.
Prosecutor Sabrina Namer, one of the members of the board of public attorneys set to replace late prosecutor Alberto Nisman in the investigation of the AMIA attack, yesterday said his team will evaluate “why the Syrian line was abandoned.”
The new team appointed by Attorney General Alejandra Gils Carbó to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community centre will continue the work done so far, analyzing the information that has been collected over the past years, Namer said.
However, the member of the Attorney General’s Unit for the Investigation into the AMIA Case (UFI AMIA) warned that “after ten years of work by the UFI, the course (of the investigation) cannot be changed overnight without information.”
“The stance adopted by those who have no expectations (about the results of the case) makes sense,” the prosecutor told Nacional Rock.
“After 20 years, lots of things are lost.”
In that regard, she made it clear that there was no certainty that justice would prevail.
“I cannot guarantee that now, with us (in the team), the truth will come out. But we’re committed to do our best,” she said.
New Leads
Namer, best known as the prosecutor who accused former president Fernando de la Rúa of alleged bribes paid in the Senate to pass a labour reform during his presidency, said new clues had begun to arrive at UFI AMIA.
“Since they learned that there is a new team, a lot of people started sending emails with information for us to investigate different things. We have to analyze if it brings something new with a fresh perspective to revise (the case), to continue or deepen on some of the things in the file, now with our perspective,” said the prosecutor.
As for the investigation itself, which was dominated by the accusation against Iranian officials, sponsored by Nisman, the newly-appointed prosecutor said maybe it was time to explore other options.
“We’ll see why the so-called Syria line was dismissed and if there’s an explanation for that,” Namer said. “We need to see the scope of that line (of investigation)… and know why it was left aside.”
As the Herald reported earlier this month, Veteran spymaster Antonio “Jaime” Stiusso, who used to work hand-in-hand with Nisman, was one of the main promoters of the so-called Iranian line of investigation, not paying attention to the Syrian clues or the local connection.
“We have to see what is at a standstill or a dead-end and what lines of the investigations can be abandoned,” she said. “I’m in no position to pass a judgment over what Nisman did or didn’t do.”
The team
Namer will be joined by three other prosecutors.
One of them, Roberto Salum, used to be in charge of criminal investigations in Reconquista, Santa Fe province, where he investigated crimes committed during the last dictatorship against 40 prisoners at the Air Base clandestine detention centre.
Another is Patricio Sabadini, a 33-year-old prosecutor who was part of the Unit for Human Rights Cases in Resistencia, Chaco.
Juan Patricio Murray will be in charge of coordinating the group. In 2012, he was sent to Rosario to conduct drug-trafficking probes. There he charged Santa Fe provincial police chief Hugo Tognoli with covering up drug-trafficking gangs.
As the Herald reported earlier this month, Gils Carbó wants them to divide their tasks: some of them will be in charge of appearing before the courts and others will have to devote their time to investigating the AMIA attack and the cover-up of the bombing.
Herald staff with online media
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