Overview

• The family is expected to receive autopsy results by Tuesday, a step that will guide repatriation of the ambassador’s remains.
• French investigators are treating the case as a suspected suicide following his fall from the 22nd floor of a Paris hotel, with inquiries ongoing.
• South Africa’s police have assigned a five-member team to assist the probe, though the investigators had not yet departed as of Monday.
• DIRCO is working with the family on logistical arrangements for a dignified return, and relatives have obtained a death certificate.
• Relatives and cultural advisers described plans to perform rituals to ‘fetch’ his spirit in Paris, as media also report an associate’s account of a death premonition.