A court in Barcelona, Spain has ruled in favor of the widow of the former Angolan president for his remains to be repatriated to his home country.
The fate of the remains of José Eduardo dos Santos was at the center of a legal drama involving his widow Ana Paula and Welwitschea dos Santos, one of his daughters.
When the former Angolan head of state died at the age of 79, on July 8 in a Barcelona clinic, in Spain, where he was hospitalized after a cardiac arrest, Welwitschea wanted the body to undergo an autopsy.
dos Santos’ daughter nicknamed Tchize, is convinced that her mother-in-law and her father’s personal doctor are the cause of the deterioration of the health of the man who led Angola for 38 years.
She then asked for an investigation to be opened in Catalonia for, among other things, “presumed attempted homicide, failure to assist a person in danger and injuries caused by gross negligence.”
Finally, the Spanish justice decided that the body of Jose Eduardo dos Santos be repatriated to Angola and given to his widow for burial.
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