PARIS - A shadow was thrown over the French Socialist Party's general election campaign yesterday when the widow of the last Socialist prime minister, Mrs Gilberte Beregovoy, said she doubted the official finding that her husband, Pierre, committed suicide four years ago. In implying that there was a possible sinister motive, she made no direct illusion to murder but suggested there was outside intervention because his personal diary was missing.
Until yesterday, Mrs Beregovoy had refused to make any comment on her husband's death on May 1st, 1993, just after the Socialist Party was routed in general elections. Mr Beregovoy was found with a bullet in his head beside a canal in Nevers, the central French city where he was mayor.