By Eve Brennan, Pierre Bairin, Joseph Ataman and Max Saltman, CNN

South Africa’s ambassador to France had “expressed his intention to end his life” in a message to his wife the night before he was found dead in the courtyard of a high-rise hotel, Paris’ public prosecutor said Tuesday [September 30].

Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa’s wife had reported him missing on Monday [September 29], having last seen him shortly before 4:30 p.m. as “he was scheduled to attend a cocktail party,” prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.

“(She) then received a message from him shortly after 9:30 p.m., in which he apologized and expressed his intention to end his life,” Beccuau added.

The 58-year-old envoy had booked a room on the 22nd floor of the Hyatt hotel about 10 days before, Beccuau wr

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