Bolanle Akanji
Moderator
French investigators have concluded in a report that Yasser Arafat died of natural causes and was not poisoned as suspected.
"The analysis cannot lead us to affirm that Arafat died of polonium 210 poisoning," the report says. The report concludes that Arafat died of a brain hemorrhage and an intestinal infection.
The forensic report given to Suha Arafat, the widow of the late Palestinian leader, and her lawyer, Saad Djabbar in Paris shows that while French investigators found traces of the radioactive element polonium 210, it was not what killed the former Palestinian leader. Arafat died of natural causes.
The French tests which were conducted independently and in secret as part of a murder investigation, seem to contradict an earlier Swiss Finding , which supported moderately, the possibility that polonium 210 might have been the cause of Arafat’s death.
"The analysis cannot lead us to affirm that Arafat died of polonium 210 poisoning," the report says. The report concludes that Arafat died of a brain hemorrhage and an intestinal infection.
The forensic report given to Suha Arafat, the widow of the late Palestinian leader, and her lawyer, Saad Djabbar in Paris shows that while French investigators found traces of the radioactive element polonium 210, it was not what killed the former Palestinian leader. Arafat died of natural causes.
The French tests which were conducted independently and in secret as part of a murder investigation, seem to contradict an earlier Swiss Finding , which supported moderately, the possibility that polonium 210 might have been the cause of Arafat’s death.
