前阿根廷总统梅内姆受审

Former Argentine President Carlos Menem and 12 other people are going on trial Thursday for allegedly conspiring to derail the investigation into the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center.

Prosecutors allege that Mr. Menem and his co-defendants, including his former intelligence chief and a former federal judge, tried to steer prosecutors from linking the bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association building to a Syrian-born man, Alberto Kanoore Edul, who was suspected of taking part in the attack.

The 85-year-old Menem, who became Argentine president in 1989 and served a decade, is of Syrian descent. Currently serving as a senator in the Argentine legislature, Mr. Menem has denied the charges.

No one has ever been arrested or tried for the July 18, 1994 attack in the capital, Buenos Aires, which left 85 people dead.

检察官指控梅内姆和其他被告，包括前情报局长和一名前联邦法官，试图阻挠检察官将阿根廷犹太互助协会爆炸案同生于叙利亚的男子埃杜尔联系在一起。埃杜尔被怀疑参与了袭击。被告中包括梅内姆政府的情报机构首脑和一名前联邦法官。

梅内姆现年85岁，他是叙利亚后裔。他于1989当选总统，10年后卸任，目前在阿根廷议会担任参议员。梅内姆否认对他的指控。

发生在1994年7月18日的爆炸袭击案造成85人死亡，此前没有人因这一案件被逮捕或受审。