The
AMIA bombing was an attack on the
Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building. It occurred in
Buenos Aires on 18 July 1994, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds.
[4] It was
Argentina's deadliest bombing ever. Argentina is home to a Jewish community of 230,000,
[5] the largest in Latin America and
sixth in the world outside
Israel (see Demographics of Argentina).
[6]
Over the years, the case has been marked by incompetence and accusations of cover-ups. All suspects in the "local connection" (among them, many members of the
Buenos Aires Provincial Police) were found to be "not guilty" in September 2004. In August 2005, federal judge Juan José Galeano, in charge of the case, was impeached and removed from his post on a charge of "serious" irregularities due to mishandling of the investigation.
[7] In 2005, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who would later become
Pope Francis, was the first public personality to sign a petition for justice in the AMIA bombing case. He was one of the signatories on a document called “85 victims, 85 signatures” as part of the bombing’s 11th anniversary.
[8]
On 25 October 2006, Argentine prosecutors
Alberto Nisman and Marcelo Martínez Burgos formally accused the government of
Iran of directing the bombing, and the
Hezbollah militia of carrying it out.
[9][10][11] According to the prosecution's claims in 2006, Argentina had been targeted by Iran after Buenos Aires' decision to suspend a
nuclear technology transfer contract to Tehran.
[12] This has been disputed because the contract was never terminated, and Iran and Argentina were negotiating on restoration of full cooperation on all agreements from early 1992 until 1994, when the bombing occurred.
[13]
The
1982 Great Synagogue of Rome attack, which was carried out by armed Palestinian militants at the entrance to the
Great Synagogue of Rome, took place on 9 October 1982 at 11:55 a.m. A 2-year-old toddler, Stefano Gaj Taché, was killed in the attack, while 37 civilians were injured.
1980 Antwerp summer camp attack
On 28 July 1980, a
Syria-born Palestinian, identified as
Said Al Nasr, used
grenades to attack a group of 40 Jewish children waiting with their families for a bus to take them to summer camp. One boy was killed and 20 other people were wounded in the attack.
1985 Copenhagen bombings
On 22 July 1985, two bombs exploded in
Copenhagen. One near the
Great Synagogue and the other at the offices of
Northwest Orient Airlines, an American corporation. One person was killed and 26 injured in the attacks.
On October 20, 1981, a
truck bomb exploded outside a
Portuguese Jewish synagogue in the centre of
Antwerp,
Belgium. Three people were killed and 106 wounded.
[2]
The
1980 Paris synagogue bombing was a bombing directed against the synagogue of the
French Israeli Liberal Union which was committed in Paris on 3 October 1980 on the evening of
Shabbat and day of Jewish celebration of Sim'hat Torah so that a lot of faithful people went to the temple. It was the first deadly attack against Jewish people in France since the end of the Second World War.
[1] There were 4 dead and 46 injured.
Hassan Diab, a Canadian of Lebanese origin is suspected.
[2]
The
Menarsha synagogue attack took place on August 5, 1949, in the Jewish quarter of
Damascus,
Syria.
[1] The grenade attack claimed 12 lives.
The
1981 Vienna synagogue attack was a terror attack on the
Stadttempel of
Vienna, Austria carried out by
Palestinian terrorists of the
Abu Nidal Organization.
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