South Africa. Nobel Prize winner Albert Luthuli died on the tracks, the family does not believe in the accident. The investigation of death returns

The court in South Africa resumed the investigation into the death of Albert Luthuli – the Nobel Peace Prize winner for the fight for civil rights during the Apartheid policy. Doubts about the circumstances of his death have been reported by family and activists for years.

National Prosecutor's Office South Africa She stated on Monday that “would present evidence to the court to overthrow the preliminary findings” regarding the death of Albert Luthuli. The prosecutor's office did not give what evidence it was. Luthuli died in 1967, seven years after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for his services in the fight against Apartheid (racial segregation). The investigation carried out at that time stated that the leader of the African National Congress (Anc), whose activity was prohibited at the time, was hit by a train and died as a result of breaking the base of the skull. This event was considered an accident, no third party participation was found.

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The death of the Nobel Prize winner

Activists and the Nobel Prize winner have been undermining the official version of the events for years. The relatives “accepted with satisfaction re -opening of the investigation,” BBC said on Monday. Grandson Luthuli, Sandile Luthuli, in an interview with the British broadcaster, stated that the investigation carried out nearly 60 years ago “was aimed at covering up the government's activities (pursuing the policy) of Apartheid”.

– We hope that the independent justice system, which will manage the case, will publish independent arrangements regarding what happened that memorable July 1967 – added the grandson of the Nobel Prize winner. The man emphasized that his family wants to determine the cause of Luthuli's death and to pull the people who are responsible for him.

Another grandson of Luthuli, Albert Mthunzi Luthuli in an interview with the South African portal Iol emphasized that the family was satisfied with the opening of the investigation, even though many people have passed since the death of “many people who we suspected of participating in my grandfather's murder.” The BBC reminds of suspected activists from South Africa, according to which the Nobel Prize winner was killed by the then authorities, who then covered up the case by pretending to be in case.

Albert Luthuli – who is

Born at the end of the 19th century Albert Luthuli was a teacher by profession. He opposed Apartheid, i.e. a doctrine based on segregation and discrimination of black people and Asians, in force in South Africa in 1948-1994. Luthuli gained publicity as “the leader of ten million Black Africans in their bloodless campaign for civil rights” in South Africa – we read on the Nobel Prize website.

The African National Congress, headed by Luthuli in 1952-1967, came to power after the first democratic elections in 1994.