Netflix docuseries revives debate over Argentine prosecutor's death

In this file photo taken on January 18, 2016 a woman holds a sign reading "Justice for Nisman! Memory and Truth" during a vigil on the first anniversary of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman's death in Buenos Aires.

Five years after the mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman after he accused then-president Cristina Kirchner of a cover-up in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, a Netflix documentary has revived debate in the country still bitterly divided over the case.

"The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy" a six-part docuseries by British filmmaker Justin Webster, examines the prosecutor's still unsolved death only days after he accused Kirchner of colluding with Iran to allow the alleged authors of the bombing to go free.

Calls have gone out on social media for a demonstration Saturday in downtown Buenos Aires against the government of President Alberto Fernandez whose vice-president is Kirchner to mark the anniversary of his death.

Jewish organisations angered that no one has ever been convicted of the bombing and Nisman's family will participate in a separate event at the prosecutor's grave.

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The decision not to take part in the anti-government protest was announced after the government said Fernandez would visit Israel and take part in an international forum to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.