Conflicting Evidence Clouds Death of Argentine Prosecutor Alberto Nisman

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. Nisman, who had been investigating the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center that killed 85 people and who accused President Cristina Fernandez of shielding Iranian suspects, was found dead from a gunshot to the head, in his apartment late Sunday, hours before he was to testify in a Congressional hearing about the case. AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said Thursday she’s “convinced” that prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death was not a suicide, raising more questions about the death of the man who had accused her of a cover-up in the nation’s worst terrorist attack.

In a letter published by the state news agency Telam, Fernandez said questions about Nisman’s death“have been converted into certainty. The suicide (I’m convinced) was not a suicide.”

Fernandez' letter contrasts with one she wrote Monday in which she referred to his death as a suicide.

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.

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