French forensic scientists have concluded that Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning.<br /><br />The findings contradict an earlier Swiss report which said the Palestinian leader was probably killed with radioactive polonium.<br /><br />Arafat’s widow, Suha Arafat has promptly challenged the French conclusions as she believes his death was a political assassination by someone close to her husband.<br /><br />“You can imagine how I am shocked by these contradictions coming from the best European experts. My lawyer therefore will urge that the Swiss report will be added to the French inquiry for a close analysis of both,” she said.<br /><br />The head of a Palestinian commission into the matter said last November that he considered Israel as a fundamental suspect in Arafat’s death. Something which Israel denies.The Palestinians have dismissed the French report as “politicised”.<br /><br />Arafat died in 2004. The official cause of death was put down to a stroke but no autopsy was carried out. <br /><br />Both the Swiss and French teams have found similar levels of polonium on his latterly exhumed body, but differ in their explanations as to how it got there.
