埃及間諜在英國死

涉嫌為以色列在70年代暗中偵察的埃及億萬富翁在倫敦尋找死在他的家之外。

Ashraf Marwan， Gamal Abdel Nasser的女婿，一位前埃及總統， 「失去了他的平衡」，當在星期三時站立在他的陽臺并且下跌到他的死亡，埃及狀態媒介認為。

British police said only that they were looking into the death of an Egyptian man in central London, and it was being treated as “unexplained” but not suspicious.

“It’s understood he may have fallen from a balcony,” a police spokesman said.

A spokesman for Westminster Coroner’s Court said an inquest would open on Friday into a man named Ashraf Marwan, but did not give any further details.

‘Balance problems’

Egypt’s MENA news agency quoted a source close to the family as saying Marwan had recently suffered from balance problems because of an illness and had been using a cane.

Marwan had been living in London after leaving Egyptian government service late in the 1970s.

He is thought to have feared for his life after he was publicly accused of being a spy for Mossad three years ago.

Israeli media named his as a source for the Israeli secret service, saying he had passed a warning to Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, on the eve of the 1973 Middle East war, also called the Yom Kippur War.

Yom Kippur ‘tip-off’

Gad Shimron, a former Mossad officer turned historian, said Marwan had warned Israel hours before the Egyptian attack in 1973.

“We know now, from testimony given by Israeli spymasters and made public years after the Yom Kippur War, that Marwan was the man who tipped off the Mossad,” he said.

According to The Times, a UK newspaper, Marwan offered his services to Israel in 1969, going on to provide information on Egypt and the Arab world.

He worked as a senior information official for both Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, Abdel Nasser’s successor as president.

Egyptian media has said he also had “intelligence duties”.

Agencies

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