South Africa’s ambassador to France was discovered useless on Tuesday on the foot of the Hyatt Regency resort, a high-rise tower within the west of Paris, the Reuters information company reported, citing the Paris prosecutor’s workplace.
South Africa’s authorities, in a press release despatched to CBS Information, confirmed that Ambassador Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa had died, noting with “deep sorrow and profound remorse the premature passing” of the diplomat.
“The circumstances of his loss of life are underneath investigation by the French authorities,” the South African international ministry mentioned within the assertion.
Handout/South African Embassy in Paris
Mthethwa was reported lacking by his spouse on Monday night, in keeping with Reuters, which mentioned she had obtained a worrying textual content message from him earlier than calling police.
Reuters cited the prosecutor’s workplace as saying Mthethwa was staying in a twenty second story room, through which a secured window had been discovered compelled open.
French media, together with the Le Parisien newspaper, mentioned investigators believed Mthethwa possible had killed himself.
Mthethwa beforehand served because the Minister of Police in South Africa between 2009 and 2014. Inside the previous couple of weeks, a Judicial Fee of Inquiry into alleged corruption, criminality and political interference within the nation’s felony justice system began work.
Two weeks in the past, the provincial police commissioner in South Africa’s Kwa-Zulu Natal province, Nhlanhla Mkwanazi, alleged on the fee that when Mthethwa was the nationwide police minister, he interfered in an investigation right into a head of felony intelligence by asking the Inspector Basic of Intelligence to drop costs all costs towards him.
In a press release, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa mentioned Mthethwa “premature passing” was a a second of “deep grief” for the nation, including that he had “served our nation in various capacities throughout a lifetime that has ended prematurely and traumatically.”
Sarah Carter
contributed to this report.
