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Senior Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who died in unexplained circumstances, borrowed a gun because he did not trust the police protecting him, a colleague has said.
Diego Lagomarsino lent him a gun the day before he was found shot dead, reports BBC.
Mr Nisman had been about to testify about alleged attempts to cover up Iranian involvement in the 1994 Jewish centre bombing in Buenos Aires.
Prosecutors have yet to establish if he took his own life or was killed.
Mr Nisman had been due to appear in Congress to publicly accuse President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of being behind an attempt to hide the involvement of Iranian suspects in the Jewish centre bombing, which killed 85 people.
He was found dead in his apartment on 18 January.
Mr Lagomarsino, a computer specialist and long-time acquaintance of Mr Nisman, told a news conference that Mr Nisman had told him he "feared for the safety of his daughters".
"I told him, 'Look this (gun) is old, it's an old weapon... I don't know if you will be able to protect yourself with it'.
"He said to me, 'Don't worry, it's to have in the glove box just in case a crazy person with a stick comes up and says I am a traitor'."
Mr Lagomarsino, the last person to see Mr Nisman alive, said he showed him how to load and unload the gun, but the prosecutor had assured him he would not use it.
But he added that Mr Nisman had told him: "I don't even trust my security detail."
Mr Lagomarsino has been charged with giving a firearm to someone who was not the registered owner - the only person to be charged in the case so far.
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