According to the Vatican, an autopsy has confirmed that the former envoy to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, who was awaiting trial on charges including the sexual abuse of minors, did indeed die of a heart attack.
The former archbishop died of natural causes, due to an acute myocardial infarction, and the Vatican said there were no other external factors.
In July 2015, Vatican magistrates postponed the former nuncio’s criminal trial due to undisclosed health problems for an unspecified future date because the defendant had been sent to an intensive care unit in a public hospital in Rome after experiencing a “sudden illness” on the afternoon of July 10 which was the day before he was scheduled to appear at the trial’s opening session.
The 67-year old Polish national died at his Vatican residence on 27 August 2015.
While initial autopsy results released in August said he died of what was called a “cardiac incident,” the Vatican City’s promoter of justice appointed a forensics team to conduct an investigation that followed internationally recognized protocols.
The coroners submitted their final report detailing their chemical and toxicology tests to the Vatican City court on December 14.
The report “definitively confirmed” the initial post-mortem exam that the death was attributable to a natural event of cardiac arrest.
Vatican prosecutors had formally indicted Wesolowski on five charges, including the sexual abuse of minors in the Dominican Republic and possession of child pornography.
Wesolowski was dismissed from the clerical state in June 2014 after an investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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