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"One possibility, if he'd shot himself, would have been for the gun to have fallen, or been thrown to the side," says Ignacio Prieto, one of Argentina's leading crime reporters. "But it is hard to imagine how the gun could have made such a 180 degree trajectory, it is very strange."
In Prieto's view, this points towards the involvement of others in the prosecutor's death - a theory, he says, supported by criminologists from Interpol.
"So what the specialists say is that the scene was arranged, they put the body in a certain way, they put the gun in place, they even used a towel to arrange the body."
Prieto concludes, "If you weigh up the evidence for suicide and assassination - the balance of what you see in the photos and in the findings of the investigators, it points more towards murder."
Tests have also failed to find gunshot residue on Nisman's hand.
The weapon that killed Nisman, was a rather old .22 calibre Bersa handgun. It belonged to a 38-year-old computer specialist, Diego Lagomarsino, who worked closely with the prosecutor.
In a chaotic press conference after the body was found, Lagomarsino denied being part of a conspiracy to kill his boss. Later, he told me his version of events - that Nisman asked to borrow the gun because he could no longer trust his police bodyguards and wanted to protect his daughters.
And then this:
It's known, from documents released by Wikileaks, that Nisman was a regular visitor to the US embassy in Buenos Aires. He saw secret intelligence briefings that probably influenced his investigation into the Amia bombing. He's also believed to have had close links with the Israeli Mossad.
After Nisman died, Hector Timerman sent open letters to Washington and Israel, warning them to back off Argentina's internal affairs.
"I think that there are countries whose intelligence services operate in third countries without the authorisation of those countries," says the foreign minister. "What I am saying in my letter is just telling them that if they are doing that they should stop."
I pushed him further, asking if he sent those "warning" letters because of what has been learned from the Nisman case.
"We don't send letters without evidence," he replied brusquely.
What is not in doubt is the role played by Argentina's internal intelligence agency in Alberto Nisman's life and, say some, in his death too.
Who killed Alberto Nisman - BBC News
I am of the mind that this man was murdered and I have thought this since it occurred.
So, at this point the question is why?
In Prieto's view, this points towards the involvement of others in the prosecutor's death - a theory, he says, supported by criminologists from Interpol.
"So what the specialists say is that the scene was arranged, they put the body in a certain way, they put the gun in place, they even used a towel to arrange the body."
Prieto concludes, "If you weigh up the evidence for suicide and assassination - the balance of what you see in the photos and in the findings of the investigators, it points more towards murder."
Tests have also failed to find gunshot residue on Nisman's hand.
The weapon that killed Nisman, was a rather old .22 calibre Bersa handgun. It belonged to a 38-year-old computer specialist, Diego Lagomarsino, who worked closely with the prosecutor.
In a chaotic press conference after the body was found, Lagomarsino denied being part of a conspiracy to kill his boss. Later, he told me his version of events - that Nisman asked to borrow the gun because he could no longer trust his police bodyguards and wanted to protect his daughters.
And then this:
It's known, from documents released by Wikileaks, that Nisman was a regular visitor to the US embassy in Buenos Aires. He saw secret intelligence briefings that probably influenced his investigation into the Amia bombing. He's also believed to have had close links with the Israeli Mossad.
After Nisman died, Hector Timerman sent open letters to Washington and Israel, warning them to back off Argentina's internal affairs.
"I think that there are countries whose intelligence services operate in third countries without the authorisation of those countries," says the foreign minister. "What I am saying in my letter is just telling them that if they are doing that they should stop."
I pushed him further, asking if he sent those "warning" letters because of what has been learned from the Nisman case.
"We don't send letters without evidence," he replied brusquely.
What is not in doubt is the role played by Argentina's internal intelligence agency in Alberto Nisman's life and, say some, in his death too.
Who killed Alberto Nisman - BBC News
I am of the mind that this man was murdered and I have thought this since it occurred.
So, at this point the question is why?
