AMIA case: they order the capture of four Lebanese who would be residing in Paraguay

Following the request of the prosecution, made in November 2022, the federal judge rafecas surely the international capture of four people linked to the attack against the AMIA in 1994. According to judicial sources, these Lebanese would have “cooperated and/or facilitated” various issues to the organizers of the attack in the previous months. The official letter issued by the magistrate was carried out through Interpol, since the suspects of “secondary participants” would be living in Paraguay.

One of the most controversial causes in Argentine history seems to be advancing. The document signed by Rafecas has the national and international catch “because they considered their membership and/or cooperation with the criminal gang called the ‘armed arm’ of the hezbollah“.

The intention of the magistrate is, once the arrest of the four suspects has been achieved, “request extradition in order to bring those required to trial, who have been summoned to exercise their right of defense and give a statement”according to the agency Télam.

According to the resolution issued by the judge, “there are well-founded suspicions that they were collaborators or operational agents of the aforementioned armed wing of Hezbollah.”

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The targeted

Samuel Salman El Reda The person who has had an arrest warrant since 2009 is the one who “was awarded the coordination of the group’s arrival and departure, the development of part of the logistics arrival operations and the other activities carried out by said group in charge of executing the final phase of the attack,” Rafecas explained.

the Reda “He was one of the most responsible at the local level in the preparation and execution of the attack in question, developing most of his tasks from the so-called Triple Border area, with the support of operational groups belonging to Hezbollah based in said region,” according to the Argentine justice system.

“At this point, it has been possible to identify some of those people who in principle would have collaborated with the actions carried out to achieve the attack by Samuel Salman El Reda in the aforementioned tripartite zone,” explained the magistrate.

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the cause

The UFI AMIA, in charge of the prosecutor Sebastián Basso, requested the arrests as a result of evidence received from abroad in the last three years. For Rafecas, the state of suspicion provided for in article 294 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Nation is configured to hear the four defendants in an investigative statement.

In addition to the recent four, in the case there have also been international arrest warrants since 2006 for Iranian citizens Ali Akbar Hashemi, Bahramaie Rafsanjani, Ali Fallahijan, Ali Akbar Velayati, Mohsen Rezai, Ahmad Vahidi, Mohsen Rabbani, Ahmad Reza Asghari or Moshen Randjbaran, Hadi Soleimanpour and who would be the head of Hezbollah’s Foreign Security Service, Imad Fayez Moughnieh. All of them are still fugitives.

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the attempt

At 9:53 a.m. on July 18, 1994 A car bomb exploded against the entrance of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) located on Pasteur Street 633, in the Once neighborhood of Buenos Aires. this attack causing the death of 85 people and more than 300 injured.

This terrorist act forever marked the history of our country, leaving open wounds within the entire society. A cause that still has no detainees.

Rafecas, who is in charge of the investigation of the attack, as subrogator of federal court 6 of Comodoro PY 2002, vacant since the resignation to retire of its former owner Rodolfo Canicoba Corral.

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