TO 30 years since the terrorist attack that destroyed the headquarters of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992the investigation is still open in the Argentine Justicewithout any suspect having been arrested, despite two international arrest warrants still in force.
The Supreme Court of Justice is in charge of the investigation as it falls under its original jurisdiction, since it was an attack on a foreign diplomatic headquarters and it was already proven how the events occurred and the responsibility of the Islamic fundamentalist movement Hezbollah.
Since 2015, the international capture of one of the accused, the Lebanese citizen Hussein Mohamad Ibrahim Suleiman, 62, with a valid Interpol red circular.
An arrest warrant was also issued for the Colombian citizen Samuel Salman El Reda Redain force in Interpol, but without results to date.
Also in 2015, then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner accepted a request from the country’s highest court to declassify the files of the former SIDE on the investigation of the first attack by Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the country, which caused 22 deaths and 300 injuries.
The The case is still in charge of the Criminal Secretariat of the Courtwhich in recent years issued letters rogatory abroad, in search of corroborating information.
In 2006, shortly after the 15th anniversary of the attack, the father of one of the victims, Carlos Susevich, now deceased, appeared as the plaintiff and asked that the crime be declared imprescriptible.
The Court did not uphold this proposal but it did reaffirm that the case will remain open due to international arrest warrants being issued.
In the case of Suleiman it is considered that he was Hezbollah operative agent at the time of the attack on the Embassy located in Arroyo and Suipacha.
According to reports in the case, Suleiman would have been a member of the Islamic Jihad group and it is believed that he entered the country in early 1992 with the explosives used in the attack on the Israeli diplomatic headquarters.
The Reda Reda, a 56-year-old Colombian citizen with an active red Interpol circular, would have links with Hezbollah and commercial activities in the “Triple Frontier” area, between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.
Another accused of the attack, then Hezbollah military chief Imad Mughniyah, was assassinated in Damascus, Syria, in February 2008.
On 1999 a resolution of the Court considered proven that on March 17, 1992 a Ford F 100 truck loaded with explosives hit the diplomatic headquarters of Arroyo 916in the first attack of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the country, which according to official records caused 22 deaths and more than 300 injuries.
Two years later, the July 18, 1994the country was the victim of a second terrorist attack with the blowing up of the headquarters of the Jewish mutual society AMIA in the neighborhood of Once, which caused 85 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
In this case, which is still being investigated in the federal Retirement Courts and has created a specific Fiscal Unit, There are also no convicts and the only defendant as a necessary alleged participant Carlos Telleldín was acquitted. for the second time in an oral trial.
in this cause there are international arrest warrants issued against Iranian citizens suspected of having participated in the terrorist attack.
