The missing president of the police agency Interpol sent his wife an image of a knife immediately before he disappeared in China, which she believes was hi
LYON, FRANCE – The missing president of the police agency Interpol sent his wife an image of a knife immediately before he disappeared in China, which she believes was his way of saying that he was in danger.
Grace Meng detailed the chilling final exchange of messages with her husband, Meng Hongwei, to reporters Sunday in the French city of Lyon, where Interpol is based.
Apparently confirming her fears for his safety: China announced less than an hour after she spoke that Meng was under investigation on suspicion of unspecified legal violations, making the vice minister for public security and Interpol chief the latest high-profile official to be swept up in a government crackdown.
The disciplinary organ of China’s ruling Communist Party said in a brief statement on its website, Meng was “suspected of violating the law and is currently under the monitoring and investigation” of China’s new anti-corruption body, the National Supervision Commission.
The statement was the first official word on the 64-year-old Meng’s fate. In Lyon, meanwhile, his wife was speaking for the first time about his disappearance.
She said she hadn’t heard from her husband since Sept. 25. Using his Interpol telephone, he sent her the knife image that day, four minutes after he sent a message saying, “Wait for my call.”
She said the call never came and she does not know what happened to him.
Of the knife image, she said: “I think he means he is in danger.” She said he was in China when he sent the message.
“This is the last, last message from my husband,” she said. “After that I have no call and he disappeared.
