{"id":41121,"date":"2026-02-18T18:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/La-famille-de-l-ex-president-Edgar-Lungu-rejette-les-allegations-d-41121\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:28:49","slug":"La-famille-de-l-ex-president-Edgar-Lungu-rejette-les-allegations-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/La-famille-de-l-ex-president-Edgar-Lungu-rejette-les-allegations-d\/","title":{"rendered":"La famille de l\u2019ex-pr\u00e9sident Edgar Lungu rejette les all\u00e9gations d\u2019empoisonnement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 5 juin 2025 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 68 ans dans un h\u00f4pital de Pretoria, en Afrique du Sud, o\u00f9 il recevait des soins pour une affection non rendue publique, l\u2019ancien chef de l\u2019\u00c9tat n\u2019a toujours pas \u00e9t\u00e9 inhum\u00e9. Sa d\u00e9pouille se trouve encore dans une morgue sud-africaine, au c\u0153ur d\u2019un conflit juridique opposant ses proches au gouvernement zambien.<\/p>\n<p>Les soup\u00e7ons d\u2019empoisonnement ont \u00e9merg\u00e9 dans certains cercles politiques, notamment au sein du Patriotic Front, le parti de l\u2019ex-pr\u00e9sident. Ces all\u00e9gations ont conduit le South African Police Service \u00e0 ouvrir une enqu\u00eate et \u00e0 \u00e9mettre plusieurs convocations.<\/p>\n<p>Dans une r\u00e9cente correspondance, les avocats de la famille ont qualifi\u00e9 ces accusations \u00ab d\u2019infond\u00e9es \u00bb et \u00ab d\u00e9nu\u00e9es de preuves cr\u00e9dibles \u00bb, tout en affirmant que leurs clients coop\u00e8rent pleinement avec les autorit\u00e9s sud-africaines.<\/p>\n<p>La police aurait \u00e9galement adress\u00e9 des citations \u00e0 compara\u00eetre \u00e0 la maison fun\u00e9raire en charge du corps, sollicitant sa remise pour un \u00e9ventuel examen post-mortem \u2014 une d\u00e9marche contest\u00e9e par la famille, qui estime qu\u2019elle contrevient aux d\u00e9cisions judiciaires en vigueur.<\/p>\n<p>Au-del\u00e0 des circonstances du d\u00e9c\u00e8s, le dossier s\u2019est transform\u00e9 en v\u00e9ritable bataille judiciaire concernant le lieu et les modalit\u00e9s des fun\u00e9railles. Le gouvernement zambien souhaite rapatrier la d\u00e9pouille \u00e0 Lusaka afin d\u2019organiser des fun\u00e9railles d\u2019\u00c9tat, conform\u00e9ment au protocole r\u00e9serv\u00e9 aux anciens chefs d\u2019\u00c9tat.<\/p>\n<p>La famille, pour sa part, affirme que l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident aurait exprim\u00e9 le souhait d\u2019\u00eatre enterr\u00e9 en Afrique du Sud dans un cadre priv\u00e9. En ao\u00fbt 2025, la Haute Cour de Pretoria avait ordonn\u00e9 le rapatriement du corps en Zambie. Toutefois, la veuve de Lungu a interjet\u00e9 appel devant la Cour supr\u00eame d\u2019appel si\u00e9geant \u00e0 Bloemfontein, esp\u00e9rant faire annuler cette d\u00e9cision.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019affaire suscite un vif d\u00e9bat public en Zambie comme en Afrique du Sud. Certains observateurs d\u00e9noncent la lenteur des proc\u00e9dures et le manque de clart\u00e9 autour de l\u2019enqu\u00eate m\u00e9dicale, tandis que d\u2019autres soulignent la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de respecter les d\u00e9cisions de justice et les obligations protocolaires li\u00e9es au statut d\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident.<\/p>\n<p>En attendant l\u2019issue des proc\u00e9dures judiciaires et de l\u2019enqu\u00eate en cours, aucune date ni aucun lieu d\u00e9finitif pour l\u2019inhumation d\u2019Edgar Lungu n\u2019ont \u00e9t\u00e9 annonc\u00e9s, laissant planer une incertitude persistante sur la conclusion de ce dossier sensible.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-71891 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/el-8.jpg\" alt=\"La famille de l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident zambien Edgar Lungu a formellement rejet\u00e9 les all\u00e9gations selon lesquelles il aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 empoisonn\u00e9\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La famille de l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident zambien Edgar Lungu a formellement rejet\u00e9 les all\u00e9gations selon lesquelles il aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 empoisonn\u00e9, alors que les autorit\u00e9s sud-africaines poursuivent une enqu\u00eate qui continue de retarder ses fun\u00e9railles, pr\u00e8s de huit mois apr\u00e8s son d\u00e9c\u00e8s en juin 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000071890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7529],"tags":[7605],"byline":[7717],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite-3","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393}],"contributors":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393}],"featured_image":{"id":4000071890,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/el_cp-8.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/el_cp-8.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/el_cp-8.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/el_cp-8.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/el_cp-8.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/el_cp-8.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000071890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41121"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41121"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}