Amia case: for the prosecutor, "the main suspect of the attack" could be in Lebanon

The federal prosecutor Sebastian Bbado said that "the main suspect of the attack against Amia" could be in Lebanon and is currently working on Salman Salman, a Lebanese accused of being the local coordinator of the terrorist group that flew the building of the mutual. bean.

"He is being followed, we have information that he may be in Lebanon and we are asking for his arrest under his real name," the prosecutor told the newspaper. The nation and noted that the Amia unit continues to work to identify the group that has entered the country to place the bomb, while declbadifying mountains of documents from the former Side.

Bbado took office early in the year in the Amia unit, after the departure of Sabrina Namer and her group of prosecutors, who occupied this place after the death of Alberto Nisman.

"It's hard to really find them, we're not naïve: 25 years later, expectations persist, but we recognize that over time, the evidence has been lost," he said.

The prosecutor said that in 25 years, it could be proved that "the building of Amia collapsed in an explosion and that 85 people died".

"There is no doubt that this was due to a car bomb, loaded with 300 or 400 kilograms of ammonium nitrate explosives, a Renault Trafic spent several months previously in the hands of Carlos Telleldín, and for the prosecution – and with the evidence we have – the author is the armed wing of Hezbollah, "he said.

"The coordinator of this group was Salman Salman, a terrorist of Lebanese origin responsible for the attack perpetrated in Argentina in July 1994. There is also evidence that the Iranian government had a stake." Two of the accused are Iranians from the Iranian embbady. They were in Argentina: Mohse Rabbani and Ahmad Asgari, Rabbani was the cultural secretary and, as the declbadified documents show, he had links with the Iranian intelligence services and in Argentina he was doing counterintelligence, "he said. -he adds.

On the reasons of the fact

The prosecutor said that "one of the reasons put forward by Nisman in his opinion is the suspension of nuclear transfer contracts, but you speak of international terrorism, for which there is not a single concrete reason ".

Bbado explained on the operating mode that "seeing how Hezbollah worked, the prosecution understood that the terrorists were divided into three: the device (Salman Salman), a group of data gathering information that happened before and a group cleaning, which goes through the safes and takes what remains. "

As for the type of explosive, he said that "it is ammonium nitrate, which is obtained in the market because it is used as fertilizer and there is has tons of them. And he mentioned that "it is necessary to clarify which was the departure of ammonium nitrate, where this operational group stayed and that gave them coverage in the country".

"We have clues, there are identified houses, it's hard to really find them, we're not naïve, 25 years later, the expectations are still valid but we recognize that time has been erased and that the evidence have been lost, "he acknowledged.

The prosecutor responded to Salman Salman's whereabouts: "We are being followed, we are told that it could be in Lebanon, it is a very particular political country, and we are asking for his arrest under his real name ".

In addition, he mentioned the vehicle reducer Carlos Telleldín: "The trial of Telleldín taking place today is part of the local connection and it is necessary to consider that Rabbani operated from the embbady of Iran" .

On what Nisman investigated, Bbado said that the prosecutor's leadership "was dedicated to releasing contaminated evidence." The international outlets were based on Nisman's previous opinions, none of these lines was rejected. "

He added: "The prosecutors who followed after us all maintained the same line of investigation."