Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said Thursday, January 22, 2015, she’s “convinced” prosecutor Alberto Nisman did not commit suicide as more questions arose in the death of the man who had accused the president of a cover-up in the nation’s worst terrorist attack.
In a letter published by the state news agency Telam, Fernandez said all the questions about Nisman’s death “have been converted into certainty. The suicide (I’m convinced) was not a suicide.”
Fernandez’ letter contrasts with the one she wrote Monday saying she believed Nisman took his life.
The 51-year-old Nisman was found slumped in the bathroom of his apartment Sunday night with a bullet wound in his head. He was lying next to a .22-caliber handgun and a bullet casing.
Four days, before Nisman gave a judge a 289-page report alleging Fernandez secretly reached a deal to prevent prosecution of former Iranian officials accused of involvement in the 1994 car bombing of Argentina’s largest Jewish center.
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Police agents guard in the area outside the apartment where special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. Special prosecutor Alberto Nisman who accused the government of secret deals with Iran over an investigation into a 1994 terrorist attack, was found shot dead at his apartment early Monday. He was due to participate in a closed-door session with Congress Monday over his claim last week that de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman covered up a deal with Iran. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A newspaper whose cover reads “Commotion”, referring to the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, sits on a shoeshine stand in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man wearing a yarmulke, stands outside the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man holds a sign that reads in Spanish “Today we’re all Nisman” referring to the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman during a protest in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Police officers stand outside the morgue where forensic experts were conducting the autopsy on the body of prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Buenos Aires Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man holds a sign that reads in Spanish: “Chancellor, who is your God,” in reference to Argentine chancellor Hector Timerman, outside the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A demonstrator holding a pan and spoon takes a selfie during a protest sparked by the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman outside the government house in Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A sign reading in Spanish ” please, do something, never again, I am Nisman” referring to the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman hangs on a subway sign next to the Congress building downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man holding a pan with an Argentine flag draped over his shoulders and a woman with a sign that reads in Spanish “We are all Nisman. Justice!” protest the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A drawing asking for justice in Argentina, of the scales of justice, with a bullet on one side and blood on the other is seen on a sidewalk in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman holds a sign that reads in Spanish; ‘Justice’ outside the AMIA Jewish community, where a group gathered asking for “Justice” in the death of a prosecutor who had accused Argentina’s president of a criminal conspiracy, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
People protest the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman chants the Argentine national anthem holding a portrait of the late prosecutor Alberto Nisman outside the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A protester shouts at police guarding the government house after the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
People gather next to a mural with the names of people who died in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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