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France opens murder investigation in Arafat’s death:
Sources
Tuesday August 28, 2012 10:36:36 PM,
Agencies
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Paris:
French prosecutors have opened a murder enquiry into Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death near Paris, sources close to the
matter told AFP Tuesday.
The probe comes after Arafat’s family launched legal action in
France last month over claims the veteran Palestinian leader died
of radioactive polonium poisoning.
Arafat’s widow Suha and his daughter Zawra lodged a murder
complaint on July 31 in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
Arafat died at a military hospital near Paris in 2004.
Allegations that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was poisoned were
resurrected last month after Al-Jazeera news channel broadcast an
investigation in which experts said they found high levels of
polonium on his personal effects.
Polonium is a highly toxic substance which is rarely found outside
military and scientific circles, and was used to kill former
Russian spy turned Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who died
in 2006 shortly after drinking tea laced with the poison.
Suha Arafat has said she backs exhuming her late husband’s remains
from his mausoleum in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
A Swiss radiology lab at the Lausanne University Hospital Centre
said on Friday it has received Suha Arafat’s go-ahead to test his
remains for poisoning by polonium.
Arafat, who led the struggle for Palestinian statehood for nearly
four decades, died in a French military hospital after being
airlifted there for treatment from his Ramallah headquarters.
At the time of his death, Palestinian officials alleged he had
been poisoned by long-time foe Israel, but an inconclusive
Palestinian investigation in 2005 ruled out poisoning, as well as
cancer and AIDS.
Israel has consistently denied the allegations, accusing Suha
Arafat and Palestinian officials of covering up the real reasons
for the former leader’s death.
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