前阿根廷總統梅內姆受審

Former Argentine President Carlos Menem and 12 other people are going on trial Thursday for allegedly conspiring to derail the investigation into the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center.

Prosecutors allege that Mr. Menem and his co-defendants, including his former intelligence chief and a former federal judge, tried to steer prosecutors from linking the bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association building to a Syrian-born man, Alberto Kanoore Edul, who was suspected of taking part in the attack.

The 85-year-old Menem, who became Argentine president in 1989 and served a decade, is of Syrian descent. Currently serving as a senator in the Argentine legislature, Mr. Menem has denied the charges.

No one has ever been arrested or tried for the July 18, 1994 attack in the capital, Buenos Aires, which left 85 people dead.前阿根廷總統梅內姆和另外12人星期四將出庭受審。他們被控陰謀阻礙對1994年一個猶太社區中心致命爆炸案的調查。

檢察官指控梅內姆和其他被告，包括前情報局長和一名前聯邦法官，試圖阻撓檢察官將阿根廷猶太互助協會爆炸案同生於敘利亞的男子埃杜爾聯繫在一起。埃杜爾被懷疑參與了襲擊。被告中包括梅內姆政府的情報機構首腦和一名前聯邦法官。

梅內姆現年85歲，他是敘利亞後裔。他於1989當選總統，10年後卸任，目前在阿根廷議會擔任參議員。梅內姆否認對他的指控。

發生在1994年7月18日的爆炸襲擊案造成85人死亡，此前沒有人因這一案件被逮捕或受審。