BRUSSELS: A Brussels court is to decide Tuesday whether a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat should stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba. Etienne Davignon, a one-time EU commissioner, is the only one still alive among 10 Belgians accused by the Congolese leader’s family of complicity in the murder. If the prosecutors’ request that he answer in court is accepted, he would become the first Belgian official to face justice in the 65 years since Lumumba was executed and his body dissolved in acid.

BRUSSELS: A Brussels court is to decide Tuesday whether a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat should stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice…

Étienne Davignon is charged with participation in war crimes in relation to killing of then PM Patrice Lumumba

65 Jahre nach der Ermordung des kongolesischen Regierungschefs Patrice Lumumba wird der Fall noch einmal vor Gericht aufgerollt.

Étienne Davignon, 93, is the only surviving former official accused in connection to Patrice Lumumba’s death

Etienne Davignon, 93, is the only one alive among 10 Belgians accused by the Congolese leader's family of complicity.

Étienne Davignon es el último superviviente de los 10 funcionarios acusados por la familia del entonces primer ministro de Congo, torturado y ejecutado en 1961 con la…