RIO DE JANEIRO – New York Times -AUG. 1, 2016 — Relatives of victims of the 1994 attack of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires sought Monday to reopen a criminal complaint against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner accusing her of trying to derail an investigation into the bombing, which killed 85 people.
Lawyers for Luis Czyzewski and Mario Averbuch, the fathers of two women who were killed in the bombing 22 years ago, filed a request with a judge overseeing a related investigation against one of Mrs. Kirchner’s political allies to include a criminal complaint against Mrs. Kirchner first brought by Alberto Nisman, a federal prosecutor who died in mysterious circumstances last year.
In a complaint drafted before he was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment, Mr. Nisman had accused Mrs. Kirchner and her former foreign minister, Héctor Timerman, of ordering secret negotiations with Iran to shield former Iranian officials thought to be behind the attack in exchange for favorable trade agreements.
Mr. Nisman’s death remains a mystery: His body was slumped in a pool of blood, and a bullet was lodged in his head. A pistol he borrowed from an assistant was found beneath his body, and a spent cartridge was at the scene. The case he was scheduled to present to Argentina’s Congress against Mrs. Kirchner and Mr. Timerman quickly stalled.

 
Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina in Buenos Aires on July 6. Relatives of victims of the 1994 bombing want to have a criminal case against her reopened.

“We believe Nisman’s complaint has to be got to the bottom of because it will help lift the cloak of suspicion that archiving it was more political than legal,” Mr. Czyzewski said.
Though an earlier effort to resuscitate Mr. Nisman’s case failed, lawyers for Mr. Czyzewski and Mr. Averbuch contend that new evidence is sufficient to revive the charges against Mrs. Kirchner.
“There is repeated jurisprudence that a dismissed case can be reopened if there is new evidence,” Juan José Ávila, one of the lawyers for the victims’ fathers, said in a telephone interview.

He said revelations earlier this year that legal experts at Argentina’s foreign ministry were not involved in a 2013 agreement with Iran’s government should be considered new evidence, suggesting that the officials’ exclusion indicated the agreement was instead engineered by Mrs. Kirchner’s administration to shield the Iranians