The full story of the Egyptian boxer who strangled his daughter

The American judiciary in New York has charged, in absentia, on the 5th of last November, the 52-year-old former Egyptian boxer, Kabari Salem, who deliberately killed his daughter, with a motive that is not yet known, until it becomes clear from his trial sessions, which are scheduled to end with the sentence being pronounced as punishment for his killing. To his daughter, who is the pride of youth.

He killed her and left the United States, fleeing to Egypt as soon as a sports runner found her body dumped on October 24 last year in a park called Bloomingdale Park in the Prince Bay neighborhood on Staten Island in New York, “and she was fully dressed,” according to “Al Arabiya.net” did not summarize the news of her murder that it had seen. Its details were reported by several American media, including the local New York Post website, in which police investigations confirmed that her killer strangled her to death in another place, then threw her body in the garden after dragging her 8 meters to a secluded place where he covered the body with leaves.

In Egypt, every trace of my bridge disappeared, and he only appeared after a post he wrote last March on the Instagram site, in which he told his daughter “Ola” that he loves her and misses her, and then continued to hide, until a team specialized in tracking fugitives, affiliated with the New York Police, managed to arrest him on 3 This December, “in a place in the Middle East” she did not reveal, so she took him under arrest to New York last Friday, and the next day he appeared before the court, and he was heard officially accused of killing his daughter.

problems after divorce

The 25-year-old, Ola Salem, lived in the Rosebank neighborhood of Staten Island and was active as a volunteer at the Asiyah Women's Center for Women, known in New York as a 20-bed shelter, in defending Muslim women who suffer from domestic violence, according to what was contained in her police file, which confirmed after Her death was that patrols of her visited her home five times two years ago, for reasons “including a violation of the protection order,” in addition to the fact that a number of her neighbors stated that they saw the police “come to her home in response to the presence of problems” of unknown type as well.

It appears from a news report in the New York Times on November 3 last year, 10 days after her murder, that Ola Salem was married to someone whose name the newspaper could not know, and her marriage ended in divorce a year before her murder, but the relationship between the two worsened. After the divorce, according to what Al-Arabiya.net concluded from the news contained in it, she asked the police for protection from him, and he also asked for protection from her, and on one occasion she violated the protection order requested by a “21-year-old man,” possibly referring to her ex-husband.

As for the father of the killer Kabari, there is little information about him, including that his wife is Egyptian, of whom he has unknown children, including another daughter younger than Ola, who was killed, and he worked as a driver after his retirement. As for his past, he was a former middleweight professional boxer, who called him the “Egyptian Magician” after he appeared as one of the prominent athletes in Egypt and participated under its flag in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, ​​and then in the 1996 Summer Games in the American city of “Atlanta”, Then he professional boxing until he retired in 2005 after winning 23 out of 29 matches he played, the worst of which was at the Kansas City circuit in Missouri.

Kill a boxer in the ring

In that match that took place on September 12, 1999 against the 24-year-old American Randie Carver, which “Al Arabiya.net” did not find any video about, Carver was subjected in the tenth round to several strong blows that my bridges hit his head in particular, until he collapsed to the ground. He tried to get up 4 times but failed, until he lost consciousness completely on the floor of the arena, and two days later he breathed his last in the hospital.

My bridges, to the right, and the boxer who kept punching him in the head until he killed him

It is not clear from the details of the crime so far, that there is a “very strong” reason that prompts the former boxer Kabari to kill his daughter, except that Ola, who was staying in her family’s house, “left it and returned to live with her ex-wife,” according to what he himself told the newspaper, while she expressed A friend of hers, Dania Darwish, said that she wanted to live independently from her family, in a private apartment she rented, and obtained a driver's license to work for Uber for ride services on request, and that she was strong in body "more than several men", so the friend was amazed how her killer managed From killing her, forgetting that her father was a boxer