The military court considers a woman's suit against her ex-husband and resumes the trial in Elian Saftali’s case

A woman, A.T sued her ex-husband, Lebanese Army sergeant, R.M, in the military court, accusing him with threatening to kill her and destroying her parents residence. In the details, A.T as a plaintiff in a questioning session headed by Brigadier General Hussein Abdullah, said that her ex-husband broke into the house and smashed the glass in an attempt to forcibly take their daughter, noting that he was granted with visitation rights by the competent  spiritual court . The court’s order required that the husband takes the children from the town’s churchyard and not from the house where he usually lashes at them. A.T recounted that she asked the mukhtar to be present before heading to the church with her daughter. And when the mukhtar saw the reaction of the 6-year-old child who refused to get out of the car to go with her father, he declined to hand her over to her father on humanitarian grounds. “We all returned home, but were chased by my ex-husband who started screaming and threatening with murder and breaking the door glass,” A.T expounded. And when her mother tried to pull the key out of the door he hit her on her head, A.T added. It is to be noted that the military court sentenced R.M a sum of LBP 200 thousand. In an other development, the Military Court of Cassation, headed by Judge Tony Latuf, resumed yesterday the trial of the two convicts in the case of murder of young Elian Saftali as she was leaving one of the nightclubs in Maamelteyn east of Beirut. The Court decided to ask 6 defendants to reappear as well as others who have not attended the hearings before. It also decided to bring a female witness to the next hearing on October 19. (Al Mustaqbal, September 15, 20, 2017)

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