Thousands of people are to take to the streets of Buenos Aires today to air their disgust at the failure of Argentina's judicial system to find those responsible for bombing the Jewish community center AMIA in 1994. The demonstration comes in response to the end of a three-year hearing last week that found that five men suspected of playing a part in the bombing were not guilty. The three judges concluded that an Argentine mechanic had sold the vehicle that became a car bomb packed with 300 to 400 kilograms of explosives. But they said there was no evidence that he knew the buyer or how it would be used. The judges also dropped charges against four members of the Buenos Aires provincial police who stood accused of facilitating the attack.
More than a decade after the worst anti-Semitic act of violence since the Second World War, no-one has been sentenced for striking Latin America's biggest Jewish community. Abraham Kaul, president of the Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA), told the "Financial Times" that the demonstration would aim to "send a signal to the judicial system and to the political powers that we want to live in a country where justice and democracy reign".