A Palestinian man was found dead in a park in the Belgian city of Antwerp with his hands and feet tied, leaving the cause of his death a mystery amid authorities’ suggestion that it may have been a suicide.

Although no ID documents were found on him, he was later reportedly identified as a 26-year-old Palestinian man who was – according to some reports – an asylum seeker rather than a resident in Belgium.

The fact that the deceased man had his hands and feet tied at the time of his death has led many in the public, including investigators, to treat the death as murder.

Two days later, last Friday, Aerts stated that the “autopsy did not clarify the cause of death, so all leads remain open”, with it apparently being possible that the Palestinian man died by suicide, despite his hands and feet being tied.

This morning, the Antwerp Public Prosecutor’s Office provided its latest update by revealing that investigators do not believe the death was a murder after analyses of the crime scene and autopsy findings.