11 Officers Held in 1994 Blast at Jewish Center in Argentina
Eleven Buenos Aires police officers were arrested and six more were being sought in the probe of a 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center that killed 87 people, the police chief said Saturday.
Chief Pedro Klodczyk said a federal judge had ordered the police held in connection with the alleged illegal sale of vehicles, including one believed to have been used in the attack on the Argentine-Jewish Mutual Assn. in July 1994.
The police were accused of “violation of the duties of a public official” and will probably be brought to testify Monday before magistrate Juan Jose Galeano.
Galeano is investigating the bombing by tracking down the sellers of the vehicle that was later packed with explosives.
Argentine authorities have been under pressure from the Jewish community and the U.S. government to find the bombers.
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