32-year old Ebenizer Folefack Sontsa, the Cameroonian national whose violent repatriation caused a mini revolt last Saturday on a Brussels Airline flight to Douala and led to the arrest of Serge Fosso, a passenger on the flight, committed
suicide yesterday at the Merksplas refugee center in Belgium. According to news reports, Ebenizer, who was placed in isolation after Saturday’s failed expulsion attempt, used bedsheets to hang himself in a bathroom. Police had to be brought in to quell the ensuing riot by other detainees.
Controversy over Ebenizer Folefack Sontsa’s death: Was His Alleged Suicide a cover-up? Was Folefack a victim of police brutality or did he really take his own life? Friends say Folefack was so beat-up after the first expulsion attempt that he could barely walk straight, let alone be able to hang himself. Those who examined his corpse at the morgue claim that there was no sign of trauma around his neck. Inmates at the detention center say it is virtually impossible to hang oneself in the bathrooms.
Authorities at the Merksplas refugee center insist it was suicide, and that Folefack left a couple of suicide notes. An autopsy is ordered as lawyers file suit.
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