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I received another tweet from 毎日新聞 this morning (quite sad actually). What
bothered me, aside from the news, was the usage of 性 in the sentence:

> 関係者によると、事件性はないといい、23日未明に病院で死亡が確認された。

I know that 事件 translates as event and that 性 is a suffix that expresses
condition or quality as in 可能性 or 重要性. I'm thinking that 事件 refers to criminal
activity. So does this sentence mean that the event was not criminal in
nature?
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meaning suffixes
Usage of 性 as a suffix in 事件性
Your guess is right. "事件性がない(=not incidental)" means that it is not a crime.
The article tells us that the deaths in this case would not have been caused
by a crime. If we see the words "事件性がある(=incidental)" in an article, we infer
that any circumstantial evidence shows someone's malice.
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