Who assassinated Tara Fares?

In an incident that is not the first of its kind in Iraq, activists circulated on social media a video of the moment of the assassination of Miss Iraq's maid Tara Faris, which was captured by a surveillance camera in one of the houses surrounding the crime scene.

The video shows that two gunmen who were riding a motorcycle in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Baghdad assassinated Tara using firearms. The video also showed the people of the neighborhood leaving after hearing the sound of gunfire to help Tara, who was killed instantly.

The Iraqi Ministry of Interior had immediately announced the start of an immediate investigation into the incident, indicating that it was investigating a person who was accompanied by Tara Fares during her death. A committee was also formed by the Baghdad police to conduct a search at the scene, according to a statement by the Security Media Center.

In this context, the former head of the security committee in the Iraqi parliament, Hakim al-Zamili, attributed today, Friday, the assassination of Tara Fares to the “proliferation of unlicensed weapons,” calling on the Ministry of Interior to reconsider intelligence work and seriously pursue those behind the assassinations that rock Iraq from time to time. and the other.

Al-Zamili said in a statement that “the recurrence of assassinations targeting doctors, activists and artists shows that there is a failure that penetrates the security and intelligence system that is preoccupied with side business,” noting that “there is no legal deterrent to follow up and hold these gangs accountable.”

Al-Zamili called for “holding officers and security officials accountable for failing to carry out their duties” to prevent the recurrence of assassinations, the most recent of which was the assassination of the activist, Suad al-Ali, in Basra province and model Tara Faris.

Who is Tara Faris?

Tara Fares was born 22 years ago in Baghdad, to an Iraqi father and a Lebanese mother. She studied at the “Hariri Preparatory School” in the Adhamiya area, and left the study after turning to art and filming small clips that she was publishing on YouTube.

In 2015, she was chosen as the runner-up for Miss Iraq in a ceremony held at the Hunting Club, which holds special festivals and artistic parties. She moved to Greece and from there to Turkey, where she lived for a period of time, due to death threats in Iraq. But she returned to Iraq, moving between Baghdad and Erbil.

The assassination of Tara Fares represented the death of a new “icon” of beauty in Iraq, and it comes amid a series of assassinations targeting the owners of beauty centers in Baghdad about a month ago.

Many accounts talked about the perpetrators’ goal in killing Tara Fares, who was famous for modeling on social media. Some of them said that she was “under threat of kidnapping” during the assassination, and some said that the young woman had a personal animosity with one of the young men, which may indicate the reason for her assassination, As for the others, they talked about “gangs and militias with an ISIS ideology” who are behind the criminal series that Baghdad is witnessing recently.

It is noteworthy that so far, the results of the investigations have not been announced about the causes of the death of two cosmetic experts, Rafif Al-Yasiri and Rasha Al-Hassan, who died last month.

It is noteworthy that a number of activists were also killed by unknown gunmen recently in Iraq, in Basra, Dhi Qar and Baghdad, while another number of them survived assassination attempts with silenced weapons in the capital, Baghdad, which may indicate the need to develop intelligence work to limit this. Criminal activity, which may turn