Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado said the finding of a gun at the house of the mother of her ex husband Alberto Nisman “changes all the scenario.”
“I did not know Alberto (Nisman) had guns registered under his name. I don’t know when he acquired it and we never had them in our house; I am certain about the things he had at our place,” Arroyo Salgado told reporters this morning.
On Tuesday, Sara Garfunkel, the mother of late AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, showed up before prosecutor Viviana Fein and said her son kept a gun in her apartment’s storage locker. Fein later ordered a raid at Garfunkel’s building in the Buenos Aires City neighbourhood of Belgrano.
“I want to be prudent with the investigation (led by) the prosecutor (Viviana Fein) and judge (Fabiana) Palmaghini,” Arroyo Salgado said today.
Fein and Arroyo Salgado – the mother of Alberto Nisman’s two daughters – had exchanged some fire publicly over the past weeks regarding the course of the investigation which Arroyo Salgado said is heading «only» towards the hypothesis of a suicide. Nisman’s ex wife, on the contrary, maintains the idea of a homicide and ordered an investigation by private forensic experts who released a report saying Nisman did not commit suicide but was killed.
Fein has rejected the accusations affirming her office has not ruled out any hypothesis in the case, seeking only the “categorical truth.”
In statements to media today, Fein indeed highlighted that the finding of the .22 gun at Garfunkel’s apartment – a weapon of the same type that ended with the life of Alberto Nisman -, “does not modify the investitgation.”
“It does not modify the investigation. It is data of the raid that was carried out yesterday following the mother’s own statements, in the margins of the testimony she had made days before, in which she said she had found that gun in the storage locker,” the prosecutor told reporters following statements by Sandra Arroyo Salgado today.
“The (existence of the gun) had already been informed in the case and Nisman had already registered it,” she explained adding that along with the gun, authorities found documentation of the National Register of Guns (RENAR).
“We are taking in a very rapid way (the measures) to drive the case and find the truth, which is the only and exclusive objective that this prosecutor has and the team that accompanies me; it is the only legitimate interest I have,” Fein said vowing to continue investigating “what really happened with Dr. Nisman; if it was a suicide, a homicide or an induced death.”
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