05:58 PM
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Books – Muhammad Shaaban:
A murderous jealousy settled in the heart of a girl who was no more than 14 years old, generating hatred within her that blinded her heart and before him her mind, and she searched for a way to prove herself and that she deserves better treatment than the one she receives from her parents, unlike her two sisters.
As usual every day, the head of the family went out to his workplace selling clothes, and following him his companion, who also works to help “Abu Al-Banat” in providing the family’s needs, as they pledged together since their marriage contract a decade and a half ago.
No sooner had the mother left the house than she felt a constriction in her chest, as if her heart was wondering what would happen next, and the walls of the house would bear witness to a heinous crime, which has become the talk of the people of Al-Haram neighborhood, west of Giza.
As the father’s return home approached, he began to prepare, but a phone call dispelled the daily scenario. The caller told him, “Excuse me, may you honor us at Al-Haram Hospital, your daughter is a little tired, and they brought her to us,” he concluded his sudden speech, “Don’t worry, her condition is good.”
The father rushed to the hospital, thoughts flowing one following the other on his mind regarding what his daughter had been exposed to, before he received the most severe trauma in his life. The hospital received the body of a 5-year-old girl with more than 10 separate stab wounds to the body, and her sister, who is seven years older than her, was suffering from suffocation and was confined to the intensive care unit.
The scene is difficult, and hearts are beating more and more. The mother is lying on the ground, trying to absorb what her two daughters have been subjected to, as she screams with her limbs before her tongue, “My daughters are gone… one died and the other is in the hands of the generous.”
Inside his office in the General Court of the Giza Security Directorate, Major General Muhammad al-Sharqawi, director of the General Department of the Giza Investigation Department, received a notification from his deputy of an unfortunate murder, in which a child was killed, with her body torn apart, while her sister struggled with death, clinging to life, in mysterious circumstances.
The key to solving the puzzle in the absence of the parents was represented in the older sister, “Hiyam, 14 years old,” who seemed coherent to arouse the suspicions of the detectives from the first moment, to tell a primarily police novel, like the one that is read in magazines and shown on screens. “Masked men entered our house, killed my little sister, and strangled the other.” Motivated by robbery before their escape.
The middle school student’s story was questionable, so the investigating officer asked her, “Where were you at the time, and why didn’t you try to save your sisters?” To coincide with the discussion, the arrival of the unloading of surveillance cameras in the area surrounding the real estate, the scene of the crime, which blew up the minor’s narration.
The cameras did not monitor the entry or exit of anyone from the property, so the stage of maneuvering and tightening the noose on the child – the suspect – began, and the scene ended with her confessing in detail to a cruel crime. The father told her regarding the broken knife in the kitchen.