2023-11-08 19:30:00
Philippe Boxho is a forensic pathologist and professor at the University of Liège. He was the guest of RTL info Signatures this Wednesday, November 8 and returned to a big question that remains about the death of King Albert 1st. Was his accident a disguised murder?
On February 17, 1934, King Albert I was found dead while climbing alone in Marche-les-Dames. The circumstances of this death are an enigma in Belgian judicial history. Was the King really climbing solo in the middle of winter or was it a disguised accident? Did the notorious amorous adventures of Alber I push a jealous husband to do the worst?
For Philippe Boxho, forensic doctor and professor at the University of Liège, the rumors are medically unfounded. “I just feel like it was an accident, really.”he said on the set of RTL info Signatures this November 8. “The injuries described look like an accident. But there are doubts…”
The author of the book Interview with a Corpse supports his point with Luc Gilson and Christophe Deborsu. “There are always doubts, because when the King died, his body was discovered and the valet took the body of the king and returned to Laeken before the police, the magistrates and the criminal raid takes place”he recalls. “There is nothing like this to cast doubt on the cause of death.”
Only one thing could confirm or refute the theories: body analysis. “I wish I could autopsy him, we haven’t done it”he emphasizes. “Doctors intervened to prepare the body, but a proper examination of the body was never carried out”, recalls Philippe Boxho. “What is also disturbing is that the descriptions that doctors give of the lesions are not the same…” The mystery will never be completely solved…
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