The head of the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office, Frédéric Van L Լw, presented the box containing the tooth of the Congolese hero who was killed in 1961 during a live television broadcast on Monday, June 20, to the family of Patrice Lumumba in Brussels.
«Thank you for the legal steps you have taken, because without those steps we would not be where we are today, it allowed the justice of our country to move forward.Said Frédéric Van Lև, handing over this bright blue box, which was to be placed in the coffin. Under the gold of the Egmont Palace in Brussels, he stood against a dozen members of the Lumumba family. One of the sons grabbed the box without speaking. An official ceremony was scheduled after the game, chaired by the Prime Ministers of Belgium and Congo.intimate և personalcompensation.
“War crime”.
Referring to the ongoing trial “war crime“After a complaint filed by the family in 2011 to clarify the circumstances of the murder, Frederic Van Lew added:I obviously agree with the investigator that if he continues to try to move forward (…) it remains a fight«. The tooth was taken away by the Belgian justice in 2016 from the daughter of a Belgian policeman who participated in the disappearance of Patrice Lumumba’s body.
Former Belgian Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was ousted on June 30, 1960 (formerly Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) by a coup d’état in mid-September 1960. He was executed on January 17, 1961, along with two fellow soldiers, by separatists in the Katanga region (south) with the support of Belgian mercenaries. Perceived by Washington as a pro-Soviet during the Cold War, he became the African champion of anti-imperialism after his death, considered a threat to Western economic interests in the Congo.
This compensation, which will be followed by the return of the coffin to the DPRK, which is scheduled for Tuesday night, Wednesday night, should finally make it possible to erect a memorial to the national hero in Kinshasa. Three daysNational mourningThey are scheduled for June 27-30 in the DPRK, the day of the funeral in Kinshasa, the 62nd anniversary of independence.
Source: Le Figaro
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