It was an important political figure in his country: Emmanuel Nkosinathi Mthethwa, known as Nathi Mthethwa, the South African ambassador to France, was found dead this Tuesday in Paris. His body was found at the foot of a hotel in the capital, revealed The Parisian.

According to our colleagues, the dignitary had been missing since the day before. After “received a worrying message from him in the evening”, his wife had alerted the authorities, said the Paris prosecutor’s office on a daily basis. Always according to The Parisianthe ambassador would have defended himself from the 22nd floor of a 4 -star hotel, located in the eastern Paris.

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The Paris prosecutor’s office indicates for its part that the secure windows in its room has been forced. According to sources close to the file, the 58 -year -old ambassador was depressed and could have ended his life. An investigation was opened and entrusted to the delinquency repression brigade against the person, specifies Bfmtv.

Between 2007 and 2022, Nathi MTHETHWA was a senior official of the African National Congress (ANC), who had been in power since the first democratic elections in 1994. He had worked in hiding within the military wing of the ANC, during apartheid and had notably been arrested during the state of emergency in 1989 (end of apartheid in 1991). He was Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa from 2014 to 2014, then Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture until 2023, according to the site of his embassy. He was assigned to the French Embassy in February 2024.