Argentine Prosecutor Seeks Charges Against Kirchner

2/13/2015 4:03PM     

An Argentine prosecutor has requested charges be placed against President Cristina Kirchner, as a suspect in an alleged cover-up of an 1994 bombing case. WSJ's Eduardo Kaplan reports. Photo: Getty

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federal prosecutor in Argentina is trying to bring formal charges ... against the president the allegation is that President Cristina Kirchner helped obstruct an investigation into in nineteen ninety four bombing of the Jewish community center that killed eighty five people ... WSJ's deputy run editor and writer Kathleen is here with the latest ... I forget things very much for being here ... so if you haven't been following this story this is like the latest chapter in this on the events unfolding in Argentina bring this up to speed on what happened when the previous prosecutor made similar allegations ... exactly ... that's that will center on ... the previous prosecutor ... I'd tell about a number of these men ... had been ... following this case for about ten years ... and that he had announced last month that he was prepared to bring in ... our formal charges ... identity before he was to appear in Congress he was found dead in his apartment ... since then up ... is now an investigation ongoing investigation into what happened to Mr this one ... up but at the same time I knew prosecutor was named to take up from that call ups ... it didn't impress cure is actually picking up where this last I alas not ... how you bring charges against the president how differently Kaci to proceed ... what did that that's a very good point ... in in Argentina what he seeking is he's requesting that charges are brought by the presiding judge who was investigating the case ... we still haven't heard what the judge will do ... and and for the record is in just the president is also the country's foreign minister ... I'll legislator and two of Belle of well-known out ... of ... you who read ... any of ... these officials worked with yuan to help the state stopped being too obscure and struck an investigation up about this station that Iran may have had ... in the bombing against a Jewish center twenty years ago the president say about all of this and formally ... she has been ... very quiet since the news ... she is reportedly at her residence in Patagonia in the province when she and her late husband former President Nestor pitch to ... God cool up ... she's there she's expected to be there until the nineteenth which is her birthday ... other local media reports saying that she is expected to appear in national TV more ... how incredible star and share a very tense time for