The man who lent an Argentine prosecutor the gun that killed him the day before he was to testify about allegations against the president has emerged from hiding, saying the prosecutor asked for the weapon because he feared for his family's life.
Diego Lagomarsino is the only person to be charged with any offence so far in the case of Alberto Nisman, his employer, who was investigating the 1994 bombing of Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires.
"I asked him why he wanted it," a pale looking Lagomarsino told a news conference. "He told me 'I am worried about the girls'.
"I said: 'but Alberto you have security'. He told me 'but I don't even trust the bodyguards'.
"At this point, he cracked up, and said: 'Do you know what it is like for your children not to want to be with you just in case something happens to them?'"