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Updates on Eliane Saftali case and domestic violence in Lebanon
23-5-2017
The Military Court of Cassation began yesterday the questioning of the released defendants, sergeants Taleb Hamiyeh and Yassir Hamiyeh, in the case of the murder in 2015 of Eliane Saftali by Hasan Ahmad Hamiyeh who ‘managed to escape from prison’. The head of the above court has earlier, on March 28th of this year, agreed to retry the three parties accused in Saftali’s killing. (cf: http://bit.ly/2nfVwVI). However, new information has been uncovered yesterday which proved the crime was ‘not accidental’. The forensic doctor who examined the body of the young woman stated that the shooting was direct and at point-blank range. The culprit in the past interrogation claimed he fired bullets at the nightclub’s sign which fell back and killed Saftali, who as he mentioned, happened to be leaving the place. The doctor was asked about the disappearance of the report from the murder case file during its review by the Military Court which never summoned him to hear his testimony as is usual in criminal investigation. The next hearing was adjourned till June 5, 2017 for the questioning of Hassan’s friends and the victim’s mother. Meanwhile, in the latest of domestic violence incidents, Majida Reda Haidar was found yesterday blood-soaked in her home in Athar neighborhood of Tyre from repeated stabbing with a knife in the neck. Security forces rushed to the scene of the murder and successfully detained the husband, Safi Ezzedine, who, after being faced with evidence, admitted to slaying his wife. In parallel, Mount Lebanon Attorney General ordered the arrest of the father and mother of the Syrian child I’tidal on charges of beating their 3-year-old daughter who died last Saturday at Saint Louis Hospital. The forensic report has shown bruises and burns on the child's body and internal head bleeding. (Al Mustaqbal, May 23, 2017)
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