The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned to death according to Swiss forensic tests.<br /><br />A team of experts from Lausanne said that “unexpectedly high” levels of radioactive polonium were found on his body, which was exhumed last year amid ongoing claims that he was murdered.<br /><br />Arafat died in 2004 in Paris where he had been flown after falling ill. The official cause was a stroke.<br /><br />Many Palestinians suspected foul play and blamed Israel. It has always denied involvement.<br /><br />The Swiss report says the results “moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning”. <br /><br />Arafat’s widow says the tests reveal “a real crime, a political assassination”.
