A former Argentine police officer accused of carrying out the 1994 bombing of a Jewish institution demanded the arrest of the country’s former president Carlos Menem. Juan Jose Ribelli said last Friday that he was sentenced to eight years in jail as a result of a cover-up in the investigation of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
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