BBC Documentary Our World 2015 Who Killed Alberto Nisman

Alberto Nisman, Argentina's special prosecutor, had just accused the government of covering-up the country's deadliest terrorist attack. But he never got to testify before Congress. He was found dead in his flat. Was it suicide or murder? In an exclusive interview the BBC's Wyre Davies speaks to Alberto Nisman's former wife. She says he was murdered and the official investigation into his death flawed. Davies also meets the last person known to have seen Nisman alive. In a tale of corruption and international espionage Our World asks - who killed Alberto Nisman?

 

 

 

No conclusions yet in Argentine prosecutor case

Two months after the body of Argentine investigator Alberto Nisman was found in his apartment, the country is still waiting for answers. 

Patti was sentenced to life imprisonment and he will execute the sentence in an ordinary prison.

In Argentina continues taking place  trials against perpetrators of crimes against humanity during the dictatorship. The laws of "Obediencia debida" and "Punto final" were derogated by Kirchner´s government.

Buenos Aires Province, April 14, 2011.- The Federal Court 1 San Martin sentenced the former police chief and former Escobar Mayor Luis Abelardo Patti to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.

The judges also gave the same penalty to former general Santiago Omar Riveros, former Army intelligence officer Martin Rodriguez and former dictator Reynaldo Bignone.

Patti was sentenced for be “primary participant” in crimes of “murder with two aggravating circumstances of treachery and deliberate competition of two or more people,” in addition to carrying out “illegal searches, illegal deprivation of liberty and imposition of torture.”

The former Escobar mayor was convicted of the crime of militant Gaston Goncalves, after the kidnapping and then killed former Congressman Diego Muniz Barreto, in addition to kidnappings, torture and disappearances in Escobar and Garin, when he was a street officer in the local police station.

Gonçalvez’s son, Manuel Goncalves, who is also grandson recovered by the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, said that this statement “is overcome the impunity that had been established by many years.”

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