MENA House: Ashraf Marwan Update --- "No Evidence for Suicide"

A follow-up to our coverage this week of the life and death of Egyptian industrialist and President advisor Ashraf Marwan (Israeli spy? Egyptian double agent? Suicide? Or Murder Victim?)....

An inquest in Britain has returned an open verdict on Marwan's death.

More than three years after the industrialist supposedly fell or jumped from a London balcony, Dr William Dolman, the assistant deputy coroner for Westminster, said there was no evidence that Dr Marwan committed suicide.

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The initial report claimed that the cause of Marwan's death was suicide.  However, Mona Abdel Nasser, Marwan's wife and daughter of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, claimed this was not possible and her husband was assassinated.

Dr Dolman added in his judgement, "There is no evidence of mental or psychiatric disorder...[and] no evidence of any intention to commit suicide."

Assassination?

Speaking on Egyptian television,  Dr Essam Abdel Samad, head of the Egyptians Union in Europe, pointed out that Mona Abdel Nasser had accused Scotland Yard of negligence in their handling of the case.  Samad supposed Nasser's claim that it was  illogical that Marwan would commit suicide. He added, "There were no finger prints or hair fibres at Marwan's fourth floor flat in London.  The crime scene was too clean to suggest a murder.  If suicide is not a possibility, then that leaves them with what is becoming a more probable cause of death: A 'professional' assassination."

The open verdict in London may produce more questions than answers.  If indeed an assassination took place, who would have done it? Mona Abdel Nasser is convinced it was Israel's intelligence service Mossad.  But why would they kill Marwan more than 30 years after he allegedly co-operated with them? Did Marwan hold confidential and sensitive information about Mossad or any other intelligence agency?