Full details of the "hammer crime" that shook Kuwait and Lebanon

 Six years, two months and three weeks after the horrific “hammer crime” that killed two Kuwaitis, Nabil Benjamin Yaqoub Gharib, and Hussein Muhammad Hussein Al-Nassar in their home inside a building they owned in Araya (Mount Lebanon) on March 10, 2016, she said against the two Syrian killers who were sentenced in person to death.

This crime shook Lebanon and occupied Beirut and Kuwait since its occurrence and its occurrence was revealed the next day, and its facts were represented by the two killers who were arrested less than 24 hours later, until the indictment was issued on December 7, 2016 against the Syrian building guard Ammar Ahmed Al-Hamad and his compatriot Samir Waheed Mustafa.

But the judicial track of the crime required until May 24, 2022, to ring the “bell of justice” in a shocking crime committed “without an eyelid” with an iron hammer that smashed the heads of the two Kuwaitis while they slept.

According to Al-Rai newspaper.

The reasons for the ruling issued by the Criminal Court in Mount Lebanon, headed by Judge Abdel Rahim Hammoud and the membership of the judges’ advisors Sarah Berish and Khalil Ghosn in charge, presented the facts of the murder. A Kuwaiti national inside a residential apartment in the locality of Dahr al-Wahsh highway - naked. fifty.

By revealing the location of the crime, a cell phone cover, paper napkins with traces of blood, a hammer and an iron pipe were found, as well as a cloth wallet containing four checks drawn to the order of the accused Ammar (Syrian) and four other checks drawn to his order.

The reports of the forensic doctors Ahmed Al-Miqdad and Nima Al-Mallah, who were assigned to examine the bodies of the slain Nabil and Hussein, revealed that they had fractures in the skull and severe bleeding as a result of being hit with a hard metal object, which led to their death.

In the initial investigation, it was found that the accused Ammar admitted that he participated with Samir in killing the slain with an iron hammer, explaining that the slain Hussain bought the building in which he lived and agreed with him to work in it as a caretaker in return for the monthly rent, and that a friendship relationship arose between the two slain who were attending to Lebanon, and that he borrowed from Hussein the amount of 3100 US dollars, and organized a bond for him with the notary in Aley, and that he was late in paying the debt, Farah Hussein is asking him to pay what he owes.

He reported that he called his friend Samir and told him about his bad financial situation, so the latter asked him about the possibility of having money in the possession of the betrayed, proposing that he kill the two betrayed to solve the debt problem and steal the money from them, and he urged him to take Walid R. (Syrian) with them to carry out the killing.

And it turned out that Muslim.S. (Lebanese), who was arrested in implementation of a search and investigation report, confessed that he had bought a stolen watch from Samir after the latter told him that it belonged to a wealthy Syrian person who was residing in Lebanon and left without knowing anything about him, adding that he owed Samir an amount of 300 He offered to sell him the watch for $400, to settle his debt from its origin. Samir agreed, who in turn sold the watch to Hassan (Lebanese) for $4,200.

After hearing the demands of the plaintiff through its legal representative, attorney Charles Ghosn, and the Public Prosecution’s review, the Criminal Court ruled unanimously: “To criminalize the accused, Ammar and Samir, with the felony of Article 549 of the Penal Code, impose the death penalty on each of them, and replace the sentence with life imprisonment with hard labor for the first accused. Temporary hard labor for a period of twenty years for the second accused, and for a felony, the first paragraph of Article 639, combined with the last paragraph of Article 640, and the sentence of temporary hard labor for a period of seven years for each of them, and by raising it to death, and by combining the two penalties imposed on them, provided that they are applied against the right of the accused. Each of them has one of the two criminal penalties.

And the conviction of the suspect Walid of a misdemeanor in Article 28 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and a fine of one million Lebanese pounds for it.

The two suspects, Muslim and Hassan, were convicted of a misdemeanor in Article 221 of the Penal Code, and each of them was imprisoned for two months and a fine of 400,000 Lebanese pounds.

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