July 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Angolan attorney general, Helder Pitta Gros, has assured that the preliminary results of the autopsy carried out on former president José Eduardo dos Santos, who died last week in a Barcelona clinic, rule out the possibility of poisoning.
A Barcelona court authorized an autopsy on Saturday at the request of Tchize dos Santos, one of the former president’s daughters, who had previously denounced that the Angolan authorities were trying to assassinate her father.
Pitta Gros has stated that at the moment there is no scheduled date for the publication of the results, arguing that “this takes time”, before stressing that the authorities have requested an exhaustive autopsy to rule out doubts.
“The objective is to see how these viscera will react to the reagent, to avoid any speculation. But that does not prevent this result from being valid,” he said, as reported by the Angolan newspaper ‘Jornal de Angola’.
For his part, the head of the Angolan Presidency office, Francisco Furtado, confirmed that during the weekend the Dos Santos family met with an official Angolan delegation to demand that the body of the former president be transferred to the African country.
The former president was admitted on June 23 to an intensive care unit of a Barcelona clinic, while last week official sources reported that he was in a coma. Dos Santos returned to Angola in September 2021 after more than two years of exile in Barcelona, although he later left the country again.
Dos Santos, 79, was president of the African country between 1979 and 2017, when he was succeeded by Joao Lourenço. Despite the fact that Lourenço was a trusted man of Dos Santos, since coming to power he has launched numerous campaigns against the corruption of the former president’s close circle, including his daughter, Isabel dos Santos, considered in the past as the richest woman in the country. Africa.
During his Presidency, Dos Santos was also Commander-in-Chief of the Angolan Armed Forces and President of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the party that has governed the country since its independence from Portugal in November 1975.
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