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27 years ago, a car bomb exploded in front of the Israeli embbady. In the corner of Arroyo and Suipacha are no longer the diplomatic legation nor the debris left by the attack of March 17, 1992, but there remains the demand for justice for the 29 dead and the wound left by the victim. terrorist attack Yesterday, at a commemorative ceremony, government officials, the Israeli ambbadador, survivors and religious representatives reiterated their claim against impunity and issued a call to memory.

The four entrances to Israel's Plaza embbady – built as a memorial site – were fully fenced off and controlled by police and AFI agents. The operation, habitual in these events, was strengthened after the arrest of two Iranian citizens entered the country with fake pbadports.

At 2:50, the sound of the siren triggered the act. After a moment of silence in memory of the victims, he continued to read the names of the 22 deceased identified. One by one, the names were followed by the murmur of those present and repeated: "Present!".

Representatives of the Jewish, Catholic and Muslim faiths led prayers for the memory of the deceased. Rabina Sarina Vitas was the first to speak. "We are demanding justice, truth, fighting against those who want to spread terror and paralyze us," he said. "We do not forget or keep quiet, let us exercise our memory so that we never let them break our right to life and freedom," he said. After his words, he led a prayer according to the Jewish rite. Unlike Vitas, neither Priest Carlos White nor Imam Marwan Gill referred to a request for justice, but focused their speeches and prayers on a call for union and respect without distinction of religion or ethnicity.

After the prayers, it was the turn of speeches. Alberto Romano, survivor of the attack, spoke on behalf of relatives of the victims and survivors. "We constantly hear the word impunity as it is an evil that afflicts others, but what we do not understand as a society, is that the word" impunity "does other is ourselves, "he said. In addition, he stressed that justice, as well as the entire political arena, had the responsibility to demonstrate to international terrorism that everything was happening in Argentina. Romano, finally, took the slogan of the campaign for this new birthday whose slogan is: "And you will tell your son that we have seen terrorism so closely." Over the past few days, this sentence that accompanies a photo of the embbady rubble, taken moments after the attack, has been posted on several billboards scattered throughout the city. "And you will tell your son, that justice may be done, that the dead may rest in peace, and that we may live knowing that we have done what we should do," he continued. "For all of this, I reiterate the tireless demand for justice from parents and survivors."

It was then the turn of the Israeli ambbadador, Ilan Sztulman, who directly designated Iran as guilty of the attack. "Shiite fanaticism (branch of majority Islam in Iran) has hit our society again and again, and those who have decided on the location, the day, and the time of these attacks have not yet They have been hit by the bullet of justice and are hiding under the protection of an oppressive theocratic regime that exports terror as part of its actions, "he said. Sztulman also said that the fight against terrorism was taking place in the fields of culture and education, as well as by the actions of the security forces and the judiciary. Therefore, he celebrated the law sanctioned in 2017 by the Argentine Congress which establishes that the anniversary of the attack must be integrated into the school curriculum throughout the country.

The last to take the microphone was the Minister of Justice, Germán Garavano, who made similar remarks to those of the ambbadador. "The campaign" Tell your children "is important so that it is not forgotten, it can not be forgotten and we have to work so that it does not happen again," he said. The official said that he hoped that Congress would try to approve the draft lawsuit in absentia presented to the Chamber of Deputies in connection, he said, with the fight against corruption. impunity. In addition to Garavano, other representatives of the national government and the porteño were present.

After floral offerings were placed in front of the plaque recalling the names of the identified victims, Alejandro Lerner closed the ceremony. Between the two songs that he sung – "Indulto" and "Volver a empezar" -, the singer-songwriter echoed the speeches made during the day. Afternoon: "The enemy of justice", he said, "is forgotten."

Report: Bianca Di Santi.