The Sixth Circuit of the Giza Criminal Court decided on Wednesday, Postponement of the trial of the two accused of killing Shaima Gamalfor the August 13th session for viewing.
During the first court session, the first defendant, Counselor Ayman Hajjaj, the presenter’s husband, confessed to killing his media wife, but denied intentionally killing her, while the second defendant denied participating in the killing.
During the session, the representative of the Public Prosecution confirmed that the accused had committed the crime of killing the victim and mutilating her face in order to hide the features of the body.
The Cairo Court of Appeal, headed by Counselor Mohamed Hussein Abdel Tawab, a member of the Supreme Judicial Council, had set a session, today, Wednesday, to consider the case before the Giza Criminal Court.
Amid popular anticipation, a trial began The accused, Ayman Abdel-Fattah Muhammad Hajjaj, and Hussein Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Gharabliwho are being held in pretrial detention, pending their accusation of premeditated murder of Shaima Gamal, the media personality.
The case shook the Egyptian public opinion during the past few days, due to its ugliness.
The wife’s threats to expose their relationship
The accused husband is behind bars
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The accused is behind bars
In a related context, investigations revealed that the first accused, the husband, confessed to asking his wife, broadcaster Shaima Gamal Sayed Fahmy, to announce his marriage to her, harassing him with this, and threatening him to publish video clips and pictures of their marital relationship that she photographed without his knowledge, and exposing the matter of their marriage, as well as her demand for him for $3 Millions of pounds to agree to a divorce without tarnishing his reputation or threatening his future career.
The investigations also revealed that the accused intended to kill his wife, the announcer, and agreed with the second accused, Hussein Al-Garabli, on that, and they planned to rent a farm and bury her in it following killing her.
It turned out that the defendants had set last Monday, June 20, as the date for the execution, and on Saturday, June 18, 2022, they went to buy the necessary tools to prepare the cemetery needed to bury the body there. On the day of execution, the first defendant took his victim wife to the farm, while the other defendant was waiting for him out.
crime day
The investigations revealed that on that day the judge and his wife, the announcer, entered the farm to rest, and the agreement between the defendants was that the phrase “preparing a cup of tea” would be the sign of execution. Then the second defendant helped him and tied her arms to immobilize her, and they remained in this position for regarding 10 minutes until she died.
Counselor Hamada Al-Sawy, the Public Prosecutor, had ordered the defendants to be referred to the criminal trial, as investigations revealed that the first accused, Ayman Hajjaj, had intended to get rid of his wife, the broadcaster, over her threat to reveal his secrets, and the second accused helped him in carrying out the crime.
Husband’s confessions
The main suspect in the murder of the Egyptian broadcaster, Shaima Gamal, was her husband, counselor Ayman Hajjaj. He made new confessionsAmong them, what Al-Arabiya.net suffered, and the most prominent one in it, is what she said before he finished her, as she called for help and screamed: “It is forbidden, have mercy on me, take everything, but I will live. I have a girl who needs me,” but he continued to kill her until She breathed her last.
The Public Prosecution had established evidence of the accused from the testimony of 10 witnesses, including the owner of the store from which the two accused bought the drilling tools and incendiary material, as well as the statements of the two accused in detail in the investigations, which began with guiding the second accused regarding the location of the body on the farm and his statement details of the crime, then the confession of the first accused following his arrest. By committing the murder. This is in addition to what was proven by the anatomical report issued by the Forensic Medicine Authority, which confirmed that the victim died due to stifling herself and putting pressure on her neck, and the obstruction of the airways caused by this pressure, indicating that the incident is permissible according to the imaging that the Public Prosecution concluded in its investigations. , and in contemporary history.
The evidence also included the presence of the two suspects’ genetic fingerprints on the piece of cloth that was found in the victim’s body, used in the incident, as well as the presence of the phone chips used by the suspects and the victim on the day of the crime in the geographical scope of the communication tower located near the farm in question.
