Extract from: The New York Times, 19 July 2015
Argentines filled the streets outside the rebuilt headquarters of a Jewish community center here on Friday, 21 years after a van loaded with explosives was driven into the building, killing 85 people in one of the deadliest anti-Semitic attacks since World War II.
The annual ceremony at the site of the 1994 bomb attack has often been emotional with victims’ relatives pleading for justice in a case still unsolved and shaped by setbacks and controversy. This year, after the mysterious death of the prosecutor who led the bombing investigation for a decade, the ceremony was especially anguished.
The crowd heard speeches extolling the work of the prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, including one drafted by his elder daughter, Lara, and dedicated a lengthy applause to him.
“The death of Alberto Nisman was an event so tragic for society that it made us feel the echoes of that bomb on July 18,” Ariel Cohen Sabban, a committee member of the community center, the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association, told the crowd.
The ceremony was held on July 17 because of the Jewish Sabbath.

For many of the victims’ relatives, however, the truth feels more remote than ever. Mr. Nisman, 51, was found dead at his home in January, slumped in a pool of blood with a bullet in his head.
“After 21 years, we have nothing; all we have is another victim,” said Sofía Guterman, a retired private tutor, 72, whose 28-year-old daughter died in the bombing, referring to Mr. Nisman. “We’ve always clung to the smallest hope that some truth would emerge. But justice here regresses; it does not move forward.”
As a siren wailed at the precise moment of the bombing, the crowd held up black-and-white pictures of the dead. Handwritten posters criticized Argentina’s public institutions for what are widely perceived as moves to obstruct justice. These include alleged maneuvers to distort the investigation involving former President Carlos Menem and a judge and prosecutors previously assigned to the case. They will appear in a much-awaited trial next month.

Mr. Nisman had accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her foreign minister, Héctor Timerman, of conspiring to derail his investigation. Mrs. Kirchner, Mr. Nisman claimed, had ordered back-channel negotiations to shield former Iranian officials he believed had planned the 1994 attack, in return for trade benefits.

Mr. Nisman was found dead hours before he was due to present his findings before Argentina’s Congress. A pistol he borrowed from an assistant, used to fire the fatal bullet, was beneath his body, and a spent cartridge was at the scene.