Prosecutors push again to investigate Argentine leader in bombing case


  • World
  • Wednesday, 01 Apr 2015

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine prosecutors pushed for a conspiracy investigation against President Cristina Fernandez on Tuesday in the second appeal of a court decision that cleared her of trying to block the inquiry into a deadly 1994 bombing.

The accusation, that Fernandez conspired to cover up Iran's alleged role in a truck bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, threw her administration into turmoil when the claim was levelled on Jan. 14 by state prosecutor Alberto Nisman.

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