Argentine President Mauricio Macri and members of his cabinet on Monday attended a ceremony marking the 22nd anniversary of the AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires. Eighty-five people were killed and hundreds were wounded in that bombing on July 18, 1994.
 Argentine President, who was attending a remembrance service as president for the first time, received backing from community leaders however.

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri and senior members of his Cabinet, including Vice-President Gabriela Michetti, were present for the commemoration of the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires.

He was accompanied by Vice-President Gabriela Michetti, Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Larreta, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj and other government officials.
President Mauricio Macri left a wreath in front of the AMIA centre in the Buenos Aires City neighbourhood of Once.
Authorities have widely believed that Iran is responsible for what is seen as the worst bombing in the country’s history. It occurred at 9:53 a.m. when a car bomb exploded outside of the Jewish center building.

There are currently five former Iranian government officials that continue to be on Interpol’s red notice list.
AMIA vice-president Thomas Saiegh praised Macri’s administration for leaving without effect the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran and tied former AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s unresolved death to the ceremony. He called on the head of AMIA Special Unit Mario Cimadevilla and Justice Minister Germán Garavano to make the investigation a state priority.
During the ceremonies, victims’ relatives lit a single candle in remembrance of the former special AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman.

The ceremony for the 22nd anniversary of the bombing featured the public reading of the names of each of the 85 victims.
“There is an obligation to tell what happened,” said AMIA Vice President Ralph Thomas Saieg.
“The terrorists who planted the bomb…simply wanted to destroy the symbol for solidarity that is the AMIA and thus hurt us all as Argentineans,” he said, calling on Argentina’s justice minister, Germán Garavano, to continue to investigate the bombing.

Source: Algemeiner, Buenos Aires Herald, 19 July 2016