Three decades after hundreds of people were killed and injured in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, an international court on Friday condemned the Argentine state for its actions before and after the attack.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that authorities had not taken any measures to prevent the incident or launched a full investigation to find and bring the perpetrators to justice.
The court in San José, Costa Rica, has ordered Argentina to finally bring the guilty to justice.
The legal proceedings lasted 25 years before the verdict. Two years ago, the Argentine government had already acknowledged its responsibility for the failures.
On July 18, 1994, a total of 85 people were killed as a result of the explosion at the Amia community center in the Argentine capital. Another 300 were injured.
The Shiite militia Hezbollah carried out the attack on orders from the Iranian government, a recently established Argentine court.
During former President Cristina Kirchner’s term from 2007 to 2015, the Argentine government agreed with Tehran to place the investigation in the hands of an international truth commission.
The special prosecutor investigating the murder, Alberto Nisman, was found shot dead in his apartment in 2015 after accusing Kirchner of obstruction of justice and cover-up.
