An Iraqi policeman admits to carrying out the massacre of the Iraqi activist and her family

Baghdad woke up on Wednesday morning to the news of a horrific triple massacre committed by an Iraqi policeman, in which he strangled an Iraqi activist and a doctorate in pharmacy, Shelan Dara Raouf, 28 years old. The city of "Erbil", the capital of the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, planned to cross the border into neighboring Turkey, but a force from the fight against terrorism in the region cooperated with the Iraqi intelligence and arrested him, then they took him To where he confessed and narrated the details of his triple crime.

The killer of the Kurdish family members is Mahdi Hussein Nasser Matar, 36, who is charged with the Ministry of Interior to protect embassies in the Mansour area, especially the Russian one near the Bahraini embassy, ​​where the family’s apartment is located next to, and in his confessions that we hear in a video presented by the Arab News Agency “after Spreading on social media, he says that he met Dara Raouf, the father of “Shaylan” who graduated in 4 from Baghdad College of Medical Sciences, and who was working in the City of Medicine in the Department of Oncology, and that he went to him two days ago, asking to lend him an amount, but Dara refused. He told him that he did not have what he asked for.

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Then an altercation occurred between the two in the apartment, during which Mahdi found a knife near him, stabbed a house with it, and “stacked” the shed blood on the ground. He dragged the two bodies to the bathroom and opened the tap on them to erase the traces of blood with the pouring water, but the only daughter, the pharmacist Shaylan, saw what happened, so she grabbed an ashtray and hit him with it. Water near the dead bodies of her parents.

Then he cleaned the place, then searched for money in the apartment, until he found 10 thousand dollars, in addition to Iraqi dinars and mobile phones. On Wednesday, he tried to travel to Turkey, but they arrested him in the evening before he realized his intentions and succeeded in escaping.

“Only militias can carry out the crime.”

The crime that shocked the Iraqis, made Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, go to his “Twitter” platform to denounce the killing, which he described as heinous, praising the speedy arrest of the perpetrator, while the same praise was issued by the spokesman for the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasoul, according to what she had suffered. Al-Arabiya.net from local news websites, some of which transmitted a “tweet” written by the former Kurdish parliamentarian, Sarwa Abdul Wahed, in which she said that the killing of the young pharmacist was “part of the ongoing assassinations of activists,” and that the area in which the crime took place is fortified. It raises a thousand questions,” she said.

The Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Bashir Khalil Al-Haddad, condemned the crime, which he described as heinous, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party bloc in the Iraqi parliament also condemned it, while other activists assumed that Iraqi militias loyal to Iran were behind it, because Shailan was one of the activists in Tahrir Square. She and her family are known for their support of the October demonstrations, and that her house is located in a fortified area and only the militias can carry out this crime.