The Argentine Justice declared this April 11 «crime against humanity» the attack perpetrated in 1994 against the Argentina Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA), which left 85 dead and 300 injured and remains unpunished, according to judicial sources.
According to the ruling of Chamber II of the Federal Chamber of Cassation, signed by the judges Carlos Mahiques, Diego Barroetaveña y Angela Ledesmathis body unanimously decided to declare “the attack perpetrated on July 18, 1994 against the Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (AMIA-DAIA) as a crime against humanity.”
Both the Jewish community in Argentina how Justice holds people responsible for the attack on AMIAthe largest attack committed in Argentine territory, which turns 30 in 2024, against members of the Iranian Government of that time and the Lebanese party Hezbollah.
Ecuavisa indicates that the attack occurred when a car bomb exploded at the headquarters of the AMIA and the DAILYlocated in the busy commercial district of Oncein the center of Buenos Aires.
Two years earlier, on March 17, 1992, a bomb had exploded in the embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires. A total of 29 people died and hundreds were injured.
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