Diego Lagomarsino, the employee who lent Alberto Nisman a gun shortly before his death, gave his first interview since he became the only suspect charged in the investigation of Nisman’s death. He said that he does not know why his fingerprints were not found on the gun and he gave details on his relationship with the late prosecutor.
Speaking to the Spanish newspaper El País, Lagomarsino said that his fingerprints “should be” on the gun and denied having cleaned the weapon after delivering it to Nisman.
“On January 18 Nisman died and Diego Lagomarsino died,” he stated. The computer technician said that he does not dismiss any of the three hypothesis on the prosecutor’s death: suicide, induced suicide or homicide. “I keep thinking on the three. They are all mixed together, then I think of one, I think of the other,” he explained.
Lagomarsino said that “after such a long time” Nisman “was not a friend” neither “a boss” to him. “If the president spoke about a homosexual relationship, I deny it,” he added.
He explained that he began working for Nisman through a common friend in 2007, because the prosecutor had a problem with his computer. “Originally I was supposed to work for the (AMIA special) prosecution, but he (Nisman) told me: ‘No, you will work for me’,” Lagomarsino said.
“Alberto was not an easy person. He was not a bad person, on the contrary. But he wanted everything now, right now,” Lagomarsino explained. He described the late prosecutor as “a guy with cojones.”
He said that Nisman was “calm” on Saturday, the last time he saw him alive, and that the prosecutor had mentioned the complaint president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner over the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran “six or seven months ago.”
“He showed me a file and tells me: ‘This is the complaint I am filing against the president.’ I told him: ‘You are going to mess with the president?’ and he said ‘You will start with that too? I am sick of people telling me I am crazy!,” Lagomarsino told El País.
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