Dead Argentina prosecutor Alberto Nisman ‘feared his guards’

The prosecutor whose suspicious death set off a crisis for Argentina President Cristina Kirchner no longer trusted even his bodyguards at the violent end of his life, an assistant said Wednesday. A tense Diego Lagomarsino, his voice breaking at times, recounted at a news conference in Buenos Aires how Alberto Nisman had pleaded to be given the .22-caliber revolver that was used to put a bullet through his head. “He told me that he was not going to use the weapon,” Lagomarsino said. Who pulled the trigger is not clear. Nisman’s security chief has been suspended and is under investigation along with two other members of his guard detail, a court source said.

I no longer trust even my guards.

Alberto Nisman reportedly told Lagomarsino

The 51-year-old special prosecutor was found dead at his home January 18, a day before he was to go before a congressional committee to make a bombshell accusation: that Kirchner shielded Iranian officials implicated in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities office, known as AMIA. The car-bombing of the AMIA was the worst terror strike on Argentine soil in modern history and remains a wound in the collective history of Argentina’s Jewish community, Latin America’s largest. 85 people were killed and 300 injured. No prosecution has been completed in the case, two decades on.

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