Alberto Fernández says he hopes that the prosecutor who accuses Kirchner does not commit suicide like Nisman

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The political tension in

grew strongly this Thursday amid criticism of President

, who recalled the death of prosecutor

with a striking phrase addressed to prosecutor

who asked for 12 years in prison for Vice President

.

"If someone is thinking that there is someone thinking of killing the prosecutor (Diego) Luciani... What I would give the prosecutor is some criminal law treatises, because

to encourage the idea that what happened to Nisman could happen to prosecutor Luciani... that until now what happened to him was that he committed suicide, nothing else has been proven. I hope that the prosecutor does not do something like that Luciani".

Nisman was found dead in his apartment in Buenos Aires in January 2015, one day before appearing before Congress to explain a strong complaint against then-president Fernández de Kirchner.

The Argentine justice is investigating a murder, not a suicide, and Fernández himself maintained for years that

.

In 2019, when Kirchner nominated him for the presidency, he began to change his arguments.

On Monday night, in a tense interview on the "A dos vozs" program of the TN news channel, Fernández defended his vice president,

and got into an issue, that of prosecutor Nisman, especially sensitive in Argentina, because seven and a half years after the fact the investigation shows no progress.

Nisman was the special prosecutor investigating the 1994 attack on AMIA, the Israeli Mutual in Buenos Aires, which left 85 dead and more than 300 injured.

The prosecutor planned

after having formed a controversial memorandum of understanding with Iran, identified as the ideological and material author of the attack.

That is why what Fernández said called attention, on a stormy night in which he also argued that

. "

This Thursday, in the midst of a storm of criticism, the president sought to explain himself, although it only contributed to further stressing the spirits.

"Nisman committed suicide and I don't find any reason for that to happen with Luciani," Fernández said before adding that the prosecutor "has to be calm" because "he did not receive any calls or pressure from the national government."

Shortly after, in another interview, Fernández added drama to the situation by revealing that he received

and that the Federal Police is working on the issue.

Simultaneously, the opposition group Civic Coalition (CC) doubled the bet.

"We are going to denounce the President of the Nation for instigating suicide and threatening to murder Mafia prosecutor Luciani and threatening the judges of the Federal Oral Court 2," said Maximiliano Ferraro, head of the CC.

"The serious subjugation of the institutions by a president of the Nation is worrying," said Luciani himself, deified and disqualified according to the opinion of Fernández de Kirchner, denounced for corruption and multimillionaire embezzlement from the State.

Between Wednesday and Thursday, the two-time president

: Fernández (Argentina), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico), Luis Arce (Bolivia), Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Pedro Castillo (Peru).

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