One of the daughters of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos called for her father’s funeral this Saturday, “arranged in due time” and reiterated that he is considering a complaint to European bodies about violations of human rights.
From a statement by his lawyers, Chise dos Santos, one of the five children of José Eduardo dos Santos, who challenged custody of the ex-president’s body in court, says he learned this morning from images broadcast by Angolan public television that his father’s body was handed over to him. widow Ana Paula dos Santos.
The body was delivered to Ana Paula dos Santos in Barcelona, Spain, where José Eduardo dos Santos died, and according to the Angolan government, the body is arriving this Saturday in Luanda for an as-yet-undetermined funeral.
‘Because of this situation’ Chise dos Santos and his four brothers ‘were not able to say goodbye to their father’ so the daughter of the former president of Angola says that ‘when the incident is clarified she will assess whether there has been a violation of their human rights and the rights of their brothers “, the same statement said.
Lawyer Carmen Varela, representing Chise dos Santos, already told Luza this Saturday that the five older children of José Eduardo dos Santos were unaware that their father’s body had already been handed over to the widow and are now considering filing a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights.
Chise dos Santos and the brothers are appealing Wednesday’s decision by a Barcelona court to transfer the body of Ana Paula dos Santos and allow the transfer to Angola.
According to Chise dos Santos’s lawyers, while one appeal was dismissed and the second had no suspensive effect on that court decision, a response to the request for a funeral in Barcelona was expected to ensure that all of the former’s children were present. , as the five elders said they could not go to Angola because they felt it was a risk to their lives.
A statement released this Saturday by lawyers for Tszye dos Santos said the former president’s widow moved the body to Angola without answering a court question about the possibility of a funeral in Barcelona.
On social media, Chise dos Santos, having learned that his father’s body was heading to Angola, called this Saturday for Angolans to vote in the August 24 presidential election for UNITA candidate Adalberto da Costa Junior in opposition. , for this to allow “virtually” a “state tribute” to José Eduardo dos Santos.
Chise dos Santos asks that the funeral be “arranged at the proper time, as Japan is doing, which has predicted and announced more than two and a half months to organize a state funeral for its former prime minister.” [Shinzo Abe]died the same day as JES [José Eduardo dos Santos]”.
“In a funeral of this type, there must be conditions for the participation of his entire family, heads of state from all over the world, some of whom have already publicly expressed their intention to pay the last tribute to dos Santos, and this is what the Angolans of goodwill that we really deserve and want, and not the global shame that the head of the government of Angola subjects us to [João Lourenço] using the corpse of his predecessor as a political campaign tool and/or covering up electoral fraud,” Chise dos Santos added.
The daughter of Jose Eduardo dos Santos believes that in the coming days there will be a “funeral elective theater” in which “witches” and “witch” will use the body of the former head of state “in a disgusting and disgusting way.”
Businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, another of José Eduardo dos Santos’ daughters, this Saturday expressed her regret over the transfer of her father’s body to Angola, posting on social media in which she wrote that she would not be able to take the former president of Angola to the “last address “. for taking him out of their hands.
Two factions of the dos Santos family disputed in the Family Court of the Civil Court of Catalonia who would keep the body of José Eduardo dos Santos.
On one side were Chise dos Santos and his older brothers, who were against the transfer of the remains of the former first lady and were opposed to holding a state funeral ahead of the 24 August elections to avoid political exploitation.
On the other was the widow Ana Paula dos Santos and her three children together with José Eduardo dos Santos, who also claimed the body and wanted it to be buried in Angola.
On Wednesday, the court decided to attribute the body to the ex-wife and authorized the transfer to Angola after it finally concluded that José Eduardo dos Santos died of natural causes.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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