Guns found at embassy where envoy died
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Investigators found 12 weapons inside the Palestinian mission in Prague where a New Year’s Day explosion fatally wounded its envoy, police said yesterday.
At the same time, Prague police chief Martin Cervicek denied speculation that an arsenal of more than 70 weapons had been kept at the embassy, but would not give details.
“I firmly protest against false information that police officers found about 70 weapons. This doesn’t make sense,” the website of Prague daily Dnes quoted him as saying.
Cervicek said the weapons, including submachine guns and pistols would undergo DNA and ballistic tests, but that no further information would be made public before that happened.
Jamal al-Jamal, the 56-year-old ambassador to the Czech Republic since October, died on January 1. Police later ruled out an assassination, instead advancing the theory that the blast was caused by an anti-theft device inside a safe inside the embassy.
The Czech police are pursuing their investigation into the blast with Palestinian officials sent to Prague.
Jamal will be repatriated today, his daughter Rana, who lives in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, said.
She cast doubt on the police theory of the cause of her father’s death telling Dnes on Saturday: “What is certain is that it was not an accident,” adding that “a political or other motive” could be behind her father’s death.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki described the death as an “accident” caused by an old safe booby-trapped to explode if opened the wrong way.
But a spokesman for the Palestinian embassy said the safe in question was new and contained “no built-in anti-theft system.”
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