The Ugandan athlete’s partner and murderer died of his burns on Monday, less than a week after her death.
Rebecca Cheptegei’s attacker has died from burns sustained when he set fire to the Ugandan marathon runner, who died on Thursday, a hospital in western Kenya where he was being treated told AFP on Tuesday.
Presented by the Kenyan police as the athlete’s companion, Dickson Ndiema Marangach was burned 30% during this fatal attack, which has become an emblematic case of violence against women. “It is true that we lost Dickson Ndiema last night around 8 p.m.” a communications manager at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in the town of Eldoret told AFP on Tuesday morning.
Between horror and global indignation
On September 1, the man doused Rebecca Cheptegei with gasoline and set her ablaze as she was returning from church with her children to her home in Endebess, western Kenya. The 33-year-old died on Thursday with more than 80 percent burns. She will be buried on Saturday in her family’s village in eastern Uganda. According to Rebecca Cheptegei’s father, the attack stemmed from a dispute over land his daughter had purchased to build her house.
This murder, a few weeks after his participation in the marathon of the Paris Olympic Games (44th), has aroused worldwide emotion and indignation. The spokesman for the Secretary General of the UN, Stéphane Dujarric, has notably “firmly” condemned this “violent murder”, “which illustrates a broader problem that is too often ignored”that of violence against women. The city of Paris has announced that it will give its name to a sports site.
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