South Africa’s responded officially to the murder of a Moroccan diplomat in Pretoria.

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation reflects its serious concern and sadness in a statement expressing condolences to the family and colleagues of Fatmi Noureddine.

The safety of foreign representatives in in South Africa is a priority for the South African government.

The Diplomatic Policing Unit has been beefed up to enable this.

Police have not yet established a motive for the murder of Fatmi Noureddine, who was found by his colleagues on Monday in a pool of blood in a Pretoria guest house.

Neither do they have any suspects at this early stage of their investigation.

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation says those responsible will be held accountable for this heinous crime.

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Colleagues at the Moroccan embassy say they investigated after the normally punctual man did not arrive for work.

Police are investigating the death of Moroccan envoy Fatmi Noureddine. . An autopsy is being carried out.

A cellphone is missing from his room but Moroccan diplomats say they don’t know if Noureddine was in possession of a large sum of money.

Morocco hasn’t had an ambassador in South Africa for a decade.

It withdrew the chief representative in protest against Pretoria establishing diplomatic relations with the Western Sahara that Morocco’s occupied in defiance of the international community since 1975.

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