
19/06/2025
Belgian prosecutors are seeking to put a 92-year-old former diplomat on trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Etienne Davignon is the only one still alive among 10 Belgians who were accused of complicity in the murder of the independence icon in a 2011 lawsuit filed by Lumumba's children. If the trial happens, Davignon would be the first Belgian official to face justice in the more than six decades since Lumumba was murdered.