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French court drops Arafat's assassination probe

Xinhua, July 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

A french prosecutor on Tuesday requested that murder inquiry into the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat after his widow claimed the death was caused by poisoning should be dropped.

The prosecutor of Nanterre in the western Paris suburb saw no grounds for prosecution in the case of Arafat death, arguing the experts from France, Switzerland and Russia found there was no foul play in Palestinian leader's death.

In 2012, Suha Arafat asked to launch an inquiry into his husbands' death, citing elements which revealed the existence of the high toxic polonium-210 on Arafat's belongings, raising doubts that the leader was poisoned.

Arafat died in a Paris military hospital in November 2004. Endit