In details published a few weeks ago, the famous Kuwaiti media, Mai Al-Aidan, caused a wave of controversy among the pioneers of social networking sites, by talking regarding the betrayal of the artist’s wife, Abdulaziz Makhyoun, with a worker in a restaurant, noting that the artist survived an assassination attempt on his hand inside his apartment, specifically in the year 2005 .
Al-Aidan published, on her personal page on the social networking site, a picture of Makhyoun, and commented: “All of us know the artist Abdulaziz Makhyoun through his television and even cinematic works, but few of us know that he was subjected to a murder that almost killed his life at the hands of his ex-wife’s lover in 2005, He miraculously survived, following he received many stabs in the face and neck.” She added: “That evening I had a meeting with the (Tasbeeh) band in my office, and seconds following the meeting ended, I received a call from the house more than once on the office phone that appears on it. Student ID. And I didn’t like to call home because I was already on my way to it and went home, and went to the kitchen to prepare some things for my little girl and I was surprised by a tall and huge person masked with a red cloth and over it a black cover, only his eyes appear, and then I knew that this shawl is my Palestinian keffiyeh And he stabbed me, I don’t remember first on my face or my neck,” according to Abdelaziz Makhion’s account following his survival.
Al-Aidan added: “He added in a television interview, according to what the Egyptian newspaper Al-Watan reported, “I hit him and resisted him so hard, and I grabbed the knife to the point that I cut my four fingers in my right hand, then I fell to the ground and he jumped over me to hit me. And the neighbors, and ten minutes later I found people in front of the apartment door, but he jumped from the balcony to the apartment next door, and then they caught him in the other apartment and arrested him with the help of the doormen.”
She concluded: “Makhyon accused the state security apparatus of instigating his murder with the help of his wife because of his political views. He also accused her of having a relationship with the one who tried to kill him and who works in a restaurant.
The case ended with the sentencing of Makhion’s wife and her lover to 10 years in prison each for convicting them of attempting to kill him and obligating them to pay a compensation of LE 2001.