Outburst from Chief of Staff in Argentina

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Buenos Aires.- Argentine Chief of Staff Jorge Capitanich ripped up two pages of the newspaper Clarín today at a press conference after denouncing a “political confrontation” between “opposition media.”

Capitanich tore up the pages in which Clarín reported on Sunday the alleged existence of a draft of the complaint by prosecutor Alberto Nisman in which he requested the arrest of Cristina Fernández for allegedly covering up Iranian defendants in the attack on the Jewish mutual fund AMIA.

According to Clarín, the draft of the complaint, with numerous lines crossed out, was found in the trash can of the prosecutor’s house after his death from a gunshot to the head on January 18, and was incorporated into the case file.

The information in Clarín was denied hours later by the judge in charge of the case, Ariel Lijo, who clarified that the deletions were made by the court itself and that Nisman’s complaint does not contain “any substantial request regarding the alleged defendants.”

After tearing up the newspaper, the Chief of Staff denounced that there is “a political confrontation hatched by the opposition media” and warned that in 2015 “this is going to be the case, it will be a very active dynamic in this election year.”

Alberto Nisman died in circumstances that are still unclear the day before he was to appear before Congress to detail his accusation against the Argentine president and several of her collaborators.

According to Nisman, the complaint is based on evidence gathered through wiretaps about the Argentine government’s maneuvers to “clear the Iranian defendants of all suspicion” and “fabricate Iran’s innocence” in the attack against the AMIA in 1994, which caused 85 deaths.