Czech investigators say they’ve made an unsettling find in the home of the Palestinian diplomat killed by an explosion in his home in Prague.  Ambassador Jamal al-Jamal was killed when he attempted to open a safe that was allegedly rigged with explosives to destroy internal documents in the event of tampering.

But Prague police chief Martin Vondrasek says 59-year old Jamal was in possession of items he should not necessarily have had.

“We have gathered many pieces of evidence, we secured weapons that will be subject to expert evaluation,” Prague top police official said.  “We can say the weapons have not gone through a registration process in the Czech Republic.”

Chief Vondrasek did not reveal the quantity and type of weapons.

Meanwhile, Ambassador Jamal’s staff and family say his superiors in the Palestinian Authority (PA) are not telling the entire story.

“We, the family, believe it is a crime, and we need to find out what happened,” Jamal’s daughter alleged.

Soon after the New Year’s day explosion, the PA said that the booby-trapped safe dated back to the days when the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) maintained a mission in Prague and had not been in use for 20-years.  But Jamal’s daughter 30-year-old Rana Al-Jamal disputed that.

“The Palestinian official account is baseless,” the ambassador’s daughter said from Ramallah in the West Bank.  “The safe box has been in regular use – my mom (who lives there) told me that.  The box was moved a day earlier and apparently something happened in the way.”

Jamal had only been on the job since October.  He was overseeing the process of moving into a new residents and new embassy, all on the same compound in Prague.

And embassy staff denied reports that the safe had an explosive anti-burglar device, which had been mistakenly detonated.