Untersuchungsbericht eines Schweizer Forensikerteams zu den Todesumständen des ehemaligen Palästinenserpräsidenten Jassir Arafat, 5.11.2013 (engl. Originalfassung)
VI.7 Conclusion
On the evening of October 12th, 2004 President Yasser Arafat developed acute gastrointestinal symptoms eventually resulting in death one month later. His illness consisted of the persistence of the gastrointestinal symptoms, a rapid deterioration of his general state, development of severe thrombocytopenia with disseminated intravascular coagulation, cholestatic icterus and eventually intracerebral haemorrhage. The numerous clinical investigations performed prior to his death did not yield a diagnosis. The hypothesis that poisoning with polonium-210 was the cause of the clinical symptoms was proposed eight years after his death when new toxicological and radio-toxocological investigations were performed, demonstrating unexpectedly high levels of polonium-210 and elad-210 activity in many of the analysed specimens.
Taking into account the analytical limitations aforementioned, mostly time lapse since death and the nature and quality of the specimens, the results moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210.
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