The head of the Belgian federal prosecutor's office Frédéric Van Leeuw presented Monday, June 20 in Brussels to the family of Patrice Lumumba a box containing a tooth of the Congolese hero assassinated in 1961, during a ceremony broadcast live on television.
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I thank you for the legal steps that you have taken because, without these steps, we would not be where we are today, it has allowed the justice of our country to be able to move forward
", declared Frédéric Van Leeuw in handing over this bright blue casket which was then to be placed in a coffin.
The tooth was seized by Belgian justice in 2016.
