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Itongadol.- This Thursday 6th at 9.30 a.m. starts the expected and much delayed oral and public trial for the supposed AMIA attack cover-up of its authors and accomplices. The attack occurred 21 years ago, on July 18th, 1994.
The trial will be in charge of the Oral Court in the Federal Criminal Nº2, composed by Jorge Gorini, Karina Perilla and Nestor Costabel for the occasion, after years of delays and a number of recusals and excuses. It will join the two most important cases: the illegal payment of 400.000 dollars from the Secretary of State Intelligence’s (SIDE) to the imputed Carlos Telleldín, the last owner of the bomb van Trafic, which had the judge’s approval, so that a group of policemen from Buenos Aires were falsely accused, and, on the other hand, the break of the investigation against Alberto Kanoore Edul, related to the then president and who is key for the “Syrian clue”, plus other felonies the district attorneys and the magistrate supposedly committed.
In the first case the accused are the then judge Juan José Galeano; the DAs Eamon Mullen and José Barbaccia (these three also for other crimes); the Intelligence secretary, Hugo Anzorreguy; his second in charge, Juan Carlos Anchézar; the spy Patricio Finnen; former DAIA´s president Rubén Beraja; Telleldín himself; his former wife Ana María Boragni; and his former lawyer Víctor Stinfale for receiving and usufructing the money.
In the second case, Galeano, Anzorreguy and Anchezar, again, the then president of Argentina, Carlos Saúl Menem, and the Federal Police deputies Jorge Palacios and Carlos Castañeda (already convicted for the destruction or loss of proof) for warning Kanoore Edul about the raids to his properties.
The former spy Alejandro Brusson and the former official Munir Mener, brother of the former president, will not be judged because they are deceased.
In front of them will be the DAs, including some that replaced the deceased Alberto Nismand and six lawsuits by families of the victims – Memoria Activa, 18J and Apemia –, Jewish institutions – AMIA and DAIA –, former policemen and the Ministry of Justice.
Among the 140 witnesses called there are families of the victims, former policemen, Argentina´s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and members of the then Bicameral Committee of the parliament that accompanied Galeano´s investigation, the fugitive spy Antonio Stiuso and former Galeano´s secretary Claudio Lifschitz, who revealed the cover-up. Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, proposed as witness “of concept” (to speak well of them as people) by Mullen and Barbaccia, won´t assist the trial.