(CNN Spanish) - The journalist Damian Pachter, who was the first to reveal the death of the Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman spoke to CNN en Español Radio about the investigation carried out by the Argentine justice.
Nisman was found shot to the head in the bathroom of his home on January 18, 2015, four days after he denounced then-President Cristina Fernández and several government officials for the alleged cover-up of the Iranian defendants for the attack. to the Jewish mutual AMIA in 1994, which left 85 dead. Officials have always denied that accusation.
Damian Pachter
Pachter says that members of Israeli intelligence, Mossad, provided him with information about what he thinks happened to the Argentine prosecutor and said that the Israeli government knows what happened to Nisman and that for some reason he does not reveal it.
Pachter has publicly interviewed Ram Ben Barak, former Mossad deputy director and director general of the Intelligence Ministry when Nisman died.
Barak told Pachter, in an interview on Israeli television, that there is a possibility that Iran is behind Nisman's death. Iran's government has always denied the allegations. "It is a possibility that Iran is behind murder. They have the motivation to do it, ”Barak told Pachter. Barak also said, "We think we have a very good idea of who did it," in response to Pachter's question if Israel knows who was behind the prosecutor's death.
Damian Pachter
The Israeli government has not yet officially ruled on the hypothesis that clearly points to Iran behind an alleged murder against prosecutor Nisman.
However, in an interview with CNN in Spanish with José Levy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, while Mauricio Macri was in charge of the Argentine presidency, that Nisman was very close to the investigation of the blasting of the AMIA and the Israeli Embassy. and that he could not "rule out that it was Iran who caused his tragic death." A former Mossad agent in June this year assured Israeli television that in January 2015, he passed on to Nisman information about money transfers between Argentine officials linking them to Iran. The information, according to the former agent, includes data on accounts of what was then President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. In recent statements, Argentine President Alberto Fernández downplayed the ex-spy's comments and called them "a rare thing."
The current vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has always denied accusations related to the death of prosecutor Nisman. Fernández de Kirchner maintains that the Argentine Judiciary produced “fictions, directed and scripted in detail by the intelligence services -national and foreign- and disseminated by the hegemonic media» and accused the opposition of using Niman's death for political reasons for coming to power.
Pachter told CNN that he has no doubts about how Nisman died.
“For me everything is quite simple. The prosecutor files a complaint and four days later he is found shot in the head and the journalist who revealed the fact is persecuted by the State. I do not find much more turns than that. It seems to me that it is all quite simple and all that there is, besides or above that or around the fact, what is secondary, is to try to confuse, that what happened there was a murder and not a suicide as they try to impose for political interests ”.
Pachter blames the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner government for the pressures he said he had to leave the country after his scoop for Nisman's death. After leaving Argentina, the Fernández de Kirchner executive published details of his trip and defended his actions, explaining that he was doing it for the journalist's safety.
In another part of the interview, Pachter explains why he felt threatened and had to leave Argentina. He talked about how he wrote the tweet to describe the death of the prosecutor. In the first tweet, on the night of 2015, Pachter published: "I have just been informed of an incident at the house of prosecutor Alberto Nisman." Some time later he related his death. “They found prosecutor Alberto Nisman in the bathroom of his Puerto Madero home over a pool of blood. He was not breathing. The doctors are there. " Pachter says he knew what was going on with Nisman 40 minutes before the news was released and did not do so out of prudence to make sure he had all the information. Listen to the full interview here:
Alberto Nisman
