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“In Argentina we respect and celebrate the diversity of beliefs and cultures,” said the President.
“We continue to demand justice and search for those responsible for this atrocious act,” President Alberto Fernández said on the 30th anniversary of the attack on the Israeli Embassy and ratified his commitment ” once morest impunity.”
The president received the authorities of the Latin American Jewish Congress (CJL) at the Casa Rosada, while part of the cabinet headed by the Minister of Justice, Martín Soria, participated in the official act.
“30 years following the attack on the Embassy of Israel, I ratify my commitment once morest impunity,” was the message that Fernández wrote on his Twitter account, regarding the attack that occurred on March 17, 1992, which caused 29 deaths and 242 injuries. .
The president received the CJL authorities, but did not participate in the official act in the dry area where the Israeli embassy was located because he was not in Buenos Aires.
“Today, on behalf of the Argentine State, on behalf of the National Government, I come to say ‘present’, and to be one of the thousands of voices that, throughout our country, and throughout the world, continue to maintain Long live the memory and demanding justice for those who are no longer with us today,” said the Minister of Justice during the act held in Arroyo and Suipacha, in the City of Buenos Aires.
“It is the Justice that must investigate and find those guilty of this attack and that of the AMIA, and it is the political power of the State that has to guarantee all possible support to find and punish those responsible,” said Soria, who last week met with the Natalia D’Alessandro, new coordinator of the AMIA Special Unit.
At the event, along with Soria were the Foreign Minister, Santiago Cafiero, and the Ministers of the Interior, Eduardo de Pedro, and of Defense, Jorge Taiana.
Also present on the same stage were the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta; Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Gideon Sa’ar; the Ambassador of Israel in Argentina, Galit Ronen, and Miri Ben Zeev Koren, representing the families of the victims and survivors.
“The Argentine State and the State of Israel know well that memory must always be accompanied by truth and justice. Unfortunately, we cannot say that the truth has been achieved, much less that justice has been done for the victims of the attack on the Israeli embassy,” admitted Soria.
The investigation stalled in 2015, when the Supreme Court ordered the international arrests of Lebanese Hussein Mohamad Ibrahim Suleiman and Colombian Samuel Salman El Reda Reda, still in force at Interpol.
The file accuses the terrorist group called Islamic Jihad, related to Hezbollah, of having carried out the attack, while the Syrian Imad Mughniyah, a Hezbollah military leader assassinated in Damascus in 2008, allegedly by Israel’s secret services, is identified as the mastermind. .
“The lack of justice helps the trauma not to be overcome. The demand for justice is permanent. It is from today, from yesterday, from last week. We don’t know anything. We don’t know too much. Argentine society, our society, deserves a explanation. This was an attack once morest our country. In fact, more people died outside the embassy than inside. And people of six different nationalities also died,” lamented Jorge Cohen, one of the survivors of the attack, in dialogue with AM 750 .
