Judge Fabiana Palmaghini will decide if prosecutor Viviana Fein continues leading the investigation into the death of Alberto Nisman. The magistrate will be announcing her decision tomorrow.
Palmaghini is to make her decision after the hearing held today at the central courthouse, where she heard arguments from Fein and federal judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, ex wife of the late AMIA special prosecutor.
The meeting lasted almost two hours and neither Fein nor Arroyo Salgado made any comments after.
Arroyo Salgado yesterday filed a request asking Palmaghini to declare null and void part of the prosecutor’s summons for a new inspection to be held at Nisman’s flat in the Le Parc II tower in the City neighbourhood of Puerto Madero, where he was found dead of a gunshot to the head on January 18.
Sources close to Fein yesterday told the Herald that she was “fed up” with Arroyo Salgado and she thought there was no reason to be separated from the case. Fein has also filed a writ before Palmaghini, accusing Arroyo Salgado of hampering her investigation and even suggested in radio interviews that the San Isidro judge was not searching for the truth.
For her part, Arroyo Salgado accuses Fein of not being impartial and says she has only focused on the hypothesis that Nisman committed suicide. The San Isidro federal judge is convinced that her former husband was murdered and points fingers at Diego Lagomarsino, the information technology expert who reportedly lent Nisman the .22 calibre Bersa pistol that killed him.
Today, Arroyo Salgado asked Palmaghini to make the hearing public, but the judge dismissed the petition.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald