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South African Envoy To France Nkosinathi Mthethwa Dies In Hotel

South African Envoy Nkosinathi Mthethwa Dies In France Hotel

October 1, 2025 4:46 pm

South African Ambassador to France, Nkosinathi Mthethwa, 58, was found dead in a hotel after his wife raised concerns; meanwhile French Police have launched an inquiry.

South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nkosinathi Mthethwa, has died in Paris under circumstances that French authorities are now investigating.

The 58-year-old diplomat was found at a luxury hotel in the French capital late Monday, according to local media reports. Le Parisien, citing police sources, said Mthethwa is believed to have fallen from the 22nd floor of the Hyatt hotel.

French prosecutors confirmed that an investigation has been opened by the Brigade for the Repression …

Nine Arrested Over France Teacher Beheading

October 17, 2020 6:07 pm

French police have arrested nine people over the beheading of a teacher near his school in a Paris suburb, a judicial source said on Saturday, in what President Emmanuel Macron labelled an Islamist terror attack.

The source said the killing was carried out by an 18-year-old Chechen, who was then shot and killed by police near the scene in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris.

Police said the victim was 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty, who had shown his pupils some cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as part of a class discussion on freedom of expression a lesson that had prompted …

Three Sudanese Arrested Over French ‘Terror’ Stabbing

April 5, 2020 6:02 pm

French police have arrested three Sudanese nationals in a terror probe after a stabbing spree in the southeast left two people dead, investigators said on Sunday.

The attack by a lone perpetrator took place in broad daylight Saturday, with the country on lockdown to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

Prosecutors have launched an investigation into “murder linked to a terrorist enterprise” and “association with terrorist wrongdoers” after the rampage through a string of shops in the riverside town of Romans-sur-Isere, which has a population of 35,000.

The alleged assailant, identified as Abdallah Ahmed-Osman — a Sudanese refugee in …