• Catalonia The court delivers the body of the former Angolan president to his ex-wife for burial

The controversy over the death of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos continues.

This Saturday his remains arrived in Luanda to be able to carry out the funeral after a few days ago the Investigating Court number 11 of Barcelona authorized the return of the body to the widow of Dos Santos.

However, five sons of the former president, who denounced Dos Santos's widow and personal doctor, appealed the court decision, arguing that their father wanted to be buried in Barcelona and not in his country.

After learning of the arrival of the body in the Angolan capital through a television broadcast, Tchizé dos Santos, daughter of José Eduardo dos Santos, lamented that the former president's widow, Ana Paula, who was reported in court for homicide, had been taken the body without previously ruling in court about whether he would hold a funeral in Barcelona.

For this reason, Tchizé and her brothers consider that they have not been able to "say goodbye to their father" and this daughter, represented by Carmen Varela, Family Lawyers and Molins Criminal Defense, announced that "when what happened is clarified, they will study if there has been a violation of their human rights and those of their brothers".

The former president of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, died at the age of 79 in Barcelona, ​​the city where he lived, at the beginning of July, although weeks before one of his daughters, Tchizé dos Santos, reported to the Mossos d'Esquadra and the court that he had a plot to end his life and targeted the former president's widow, whom they consider to be his ex-wife, and the personal doctor of whom they indicate worked for the Angolan government.

That is why the Barcelona Investigating Court 11 opened an investigation for a possible homicide and ordered an autopsy that confirmed a natural death.

Although the investigation is still open, the court ordered the delivery of the body of the former Angolan president to his ex-wife so that she can take it to her country and be buried, as it did this Saturday, despite the fact that five children of Dos Santos from another marriage were They opposed and appealed for him to be buried in Barcelona.

The daughter of the former president of Angola considers that there are indications that the death was favored "allegedly by the ex-wife, her personal doctor and people close to the Angolan government.

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