A new crime shakes Lebanon, a father kills in front of his young daughter

Yesterday, Lebanese public opinion was preoccupied with a horrific crime in which citizen Joseph Bejani was killed by a gun with a silencer, by unknown gunmen in front of his house in the Kahala area in the Aley district of Mount Lebanon, while he was on his way to transport his children to school.

Since the crime occurred, I hesitated Information that the victim, who works as an employee in a telecom company, and is currently working in the field of photography, Freelance, witnessed through the lens of his camera what happened on the fourth of August in Beirut on the day of the port explosion, as he took pictures that may contribute to uncovering the threads of the port disaster. Physically liquidate him.

The hypothesis of the liquidation due to pictures of the explosion of the port of Beirut, as revealed by information obtained from several sources from his town of Kahala. The crime may be “exclusive”, and contains “threads” that may lead to revealing the circumstances of the August 4 tragedy.” The sources confirmed, "The perpetrators, after carrying out the crime, took his phone and camera."

The sources are unanimously agreed that “there are no enemies of the victim, which would rule out the hypothesis of murder for personal motives. He is a well-liked person and has good relations with most of the people in his town.”

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high craftsmanship

Perhaps what opens the door to questions about the background of the crime, the high professionalism in which it took place, as it appeared in a surveillance camera video that two people rushed to surprise the victim in his car after he was preparing to transport his daughters to school, and shot him three bullets from a silencer pistol, before fleeing with all “Coldness” to a side road in the town after they accomplished the task, where they rode a motorcycle after about ten people were present in the vicinity of the crime scene, who were monitoring the operation, according to the information.

nature of his work

Meanwhile, military sources denied to Al-Arabiya.net the information that indicated that the victim had documented evidence with American and French investigators about the Beirut explosion, and confirmed that “the victim did not work for the army command, and perhaps he was with other photographers who went to the port area. After the explosion in order to take pictures, the place was chaos, but with the arrival of the army, which struck a security cordon around the place of the explosion, all the people in the place were asked to leave for their own safety.”

Investigations are continuing

The military sources were keen to stress that “the investigations into the crime are continuing until the perpetrators are revealed.”

to Canada

Joseph Bejjani, 36, the father of two girls, was preparing, according to the people of his town, to immigrate to Canada, after receiving the appropriate visas a few days ago. His widow confirmed in a television interview that she was determined to leave after the crime that targeted her husband.

mobile crimes

Since the Beirut port explosion disaster on August 4 last, the number of "suspicious" crimes that appear to be related to the port disaster have increased. On December 2, a retired customs colonel, Munir Abu Rjaili, who was in charge of combating smuggling in customs, was found dead in his mountain home after he was hit in the head.

He was preceded in March 2017, by his colleague Colonel Joseph Skaff, a former customs official who was the first to warn of the presence of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut.

He also died in mysterious circumstances, as two contradictory reports were received from two forensic doctors, one of whom indicated that the death was natural, and the second confirmed that someone was behind the killing of the colonel, especially after there were bruises on his head.

Mysterious crimes continue

Among these “mysterious” crimes, their timing and their relationship to the port explosion, was what informed sources told Al Arabiya.net about the “suspicious” death of a yacht driver in the port of Jounieh, north of Beirut in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, one day before the murder of Joseph Bejjani. .

According to the sources, a 36-year-old person named (IS) died in a "suspicious" accident that is not different in nature from the murder of Colonel Abu Rjaili.

The sources pointed out that "on August 4, the captain (E.S.) was driving a yacht that was anchoring at sea near the port of Beirut, and he may have had information about what happened there at that moment."

No investigations into the Beirut explosion

These crimes, which appear to be linked to the Beirut port bombing crime, come at a time when the judicial investigator in the case, Fadi Sawan, suspended investigations for ten days, after two former ministers against whom he was accused submitted a memorandum requesting that the case be transferred to another judge.

On the tenth of December, Sawan had sued the caretaker Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, and three former ministers, namely the former Minister of Finance, Ali Hassan Khalil, and the former Ministers of Works, Ghazi Zuaiter and Youssef Fenianos, but none of them appeared before him in sessions that he identified for questioning as a plaintiff. on them.

According to judicial sources, who spoke to Al-Arabiya.net, the request to change the judicial investigator will be decided by the Criminal Court of Cassation before the expiry of the ten-day deadline. It has several options, including relying on the adjective “lack of jurisdiction,” given that Judge Fadi Sawan was appointed by the Minister of Justice after the approval of the Supreme Judicial Council, and therefore appointing a replacement for him is not within the competence of the Court of Cassation, but rather the Minister of Justice and the Supreme Council of Defense.”

will not step down

However, the judicial sources were keen to stress that “Judge Sawan will not relinquish the port case despite the pressures he is facing, and he is going with it to the end, and today he is preparing his remarks about the request to step down from the case within the ten-day period.”