Jammo's Relative Re-enacts his Crime in Sarafand
A relative of Syrian journalist Mohammed Darrar Jammo re-enacted on Thursday in Sarafand under the supervision of the prosecutor of the south, Judge Samih al-Hajj.
“I am not ashamed, I am holding my head up high and I am not afraid... No one really knows him,” Ali Younis, the nephew of Jammo's wife, said as he re-enacted the crime.
Jammo was killed on July 17 in Sarafand in southern Lebanon.
Judge Samih al-Hajj stressed that the crime is not political.
“Re-enacting the crime is to prove to people that the judiciary and security forces will follow all criminals and detain them,” al-Hajj told reporters.
He said that the investigation is confidential, pointing out that the media didn't report the truth about the crime.
Later on Thursday, First Military Investigation Judge in the south Munif Barakat issued arrest warrants against Siham Younis, Jammo's wife, her brother, and nephew in his murder.
The death sentence was demanded on Tuesday against the three suspects.
On Monday, three of Jammo's relatives were released from custody.
It said that his daughter Fatima, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law were acquitted over a lack of evidence that they were linked to his murder.
His wife was arrested on suspicion that she may have planned the crime.
The 44-year-old journalist and political commentator was one of Syrian President Bashar Assad's and Hizbullah's staunchest defenders.
In frequent appearances on television talk shows, he would staunchly support the Syrian regime's strong-armed response to the uprising and in at least one case shouted down opposition figures, calling them "traitors."
He was killed when his wife's relatives burst into the first floor of his apartment in the town of Sarafand and opened fire on him.
Initial reports that the murder was politically motivated were ruled out when security forces detained the relatives.
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