Suspects in 1994 bombing of Buenos Aires Jewish community centre to be tried in absentia | Argentina
By: | Published: 2025-07-31 05:33:00 | Source: www.theguardian.com
A judge in Argentina has ordered the trial in absentia of 10 Iranian and Lebanese nationals suspected of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.
The attack, which caused devastation in Latin America’s biggest Jewish community, has never been claimed or solved, but Argentina and Israel have long suspected Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group of carrying it out at Iran’s request.
In a ruling on Thursday judge Daniel Rafecas acknowledged the “exceptional” nature of the decision to send the case to court more than 30 years after the bombing and with the suspects all still at large.
Trying them in absentia, he said, allowed to “at least try to uncover the truth and reconstruct what happened”.
On 18 July 1994, a truck laden with explosives…
