South Africa's ambassador to France found dead in Paris – DW – 09/30/2025
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Ambassador Nkosinathi Emmanuel "Nathi" Mthethwa's body was discovered outside a Paris hotel. His death is being treated as a possible suicide, the local presecutor's office says.

Ambassador Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa’s body was discovered outside a Paris hotel. The circumstances of his death are under investigation.

South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa, was found dead outside the Hyatt Regency hotel in the west of Paris on Tuesday, according to the local prosecutor’s office.

Mthethwa was 58-years-old and had been serving as ambassador to France since his appointment in December 2023.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    27·
    5 days ago

    I was wondering what sort of grudge someone might have against him, then i looked for some other articles and they went into a bit more detail. NYT is shit, but i doubt they are making the details up here.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/europe/mthethwa-south-africa-ambassador-france-dead.html

    The room’s window had been forced open with scissors that were left at the scene, and Mr. Mthethwa’s body was found in the hotel’s courtyard shortly after 11 a.m. by a security guard, Ms. Beccuau said.

    Mr. Mthethwa’s wife had reported him missing to the police on Monday evening after he sent her a message “in which he apologized to her and expressed the intention to end his life,” Ms. Beccuau said.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      20·
      5 days ago

      He was apparently Minister of Police when the South African police murdered several dozen striking miners and faced no consequences over it, so I could see a possibility that it’s someome seeking revenge over that (but with the disclaimer that I did not know anything about him before today)