It was stated in Asas Media:
The relationship of Hussein Fayyad and his Syrian partner, Hassan al-Ghanash, was not limited to planning and executing the Ansar massacre, where they killed Basma Abbas and her three daughters: Rima, Tala, and Manal, daughters of the town’s mayor, Zakaria Safawi. It turned out that they had been arrested in an archaeological excavation file, and a report was opened in the case at the Dweir police station in 2018. The Information Division of the Internal Security Forces discovered during the investigation of the two suspects that they had also robbed a house owned by Fayyad’s relative in Ansar town. Amounts of money amounting to regarding fifty thousand dollars and forty million pounds were seized, in addition to jewelry that was found in the safe, which Fayyad puts in his parents’ house.
Before entering into the details of the discovered theft, the arrest of Al-Ghanash modified the account that Fayyad narrated in his interrogation, during which he claimed that he lured his victims to the crime scene by inviting them to dinner, following he and his partner had prepared the hole in the cave the day before the crime, and claimed that following When he and the four women reached the entrance to the cave, his Syrian partner pushed two of them from a staircase regarding four meters high, and he pushed the other two, then Al-Ghanash brought the hunting rifle and fired seven bullets at the murdered women before working to obliterate the crime. It is a statement in which Fayyad tried to blame the shooting on the partner, who was still a fugitive from justice.
Some of the details of this account were modified following the arrest of Al-Ghanash, who admitted that Fayyad was the one who initiated the shooting with a military weapon at his victims, and following he completed his criminal mission, as the two partners recounted following their confrontation. It turned out that one of them was still alive, so Al-Ghanash took the initiative to use the hunting rifle he was carrying during the implementation of the mission, and quickly shot them to ensure death, according to the detainees. Thus, the two partners became involved in the killing by shooting the victims, and not only in participation, planning, luring and execution.
It is a criminal scene from a realistic movie that took place in Ansar, and the Information Branch seeks, through investigations, to match the confessions with the facts. The military weapon, which was hidden, was confiscated, and members of the Division also found envelopes of bullets in the vicinity of the cave, and they were sent to the Criminal Investigation Department to determine their conformity.
In the process of searching for the gun, the elements involved in searching Fayyad’s house found a safe in his room, and this was accompanied by the fact that the investigators found a picture in Fayyad’s phone of a group of jewelry that he had taken with his lens. It belongs to Fayyad’s uncle (his father’s brother), who lives abroad. It was found that the two partners stole the abandoned house in the first month of this year, and following opening the safe, it was found that there were fifty thousand dollars, regarding four thousand euros and regarding forty million Lebanese pounds inside, in addition to a number of jewelry.
According to sources following up on the investigation, the security authorities contacted the uncle of the perpetrator, who was not aware of the theft of his house because he was outside the country. They have committed such a horrific crime.
According to the sources following up on the investigation, the motives are still personal and male, and the investigations did not reveal any connection to the murder with terrorism, employment or the Mossad. So that these hypotheses remain in the category of rumors and analyzes resulting from the public opinion’s lack of acceptance of the idea of this horrific murder with personal motives.
Although the details of the execution of the crime and its tools changed following the arrest of Ghannash, the motives remain the same, and they relate to the relationship that brought Fayyad together with the victim Tala, which turned into an ongoing crisis between them for more than three months. According to the analysis of Fayyad’s phone and the messages exchanged between him and the girl, the problems developed into threats. Then the decisive turn in the direction of committing the crime was when Al-Ghanash convinced his friend and partner in exploration and theft Hussein Fayyad that he might help him solve the problem following getting rid of the family, who knew the nature of the problems and the details of the differences between Tala and who became her killer.
On the other hand, and according to high-ranking judicial sources, the investigation file in the case will be transferred from the Nabatiyeh Palace of Justice Court to Beirut, especially following the failure of the Public Prosecution of Appeal in Nabatiyeh, represented by Judge Ghada Abu Alwan, who has been unable for more than twenty-five days to discover the occurrence of The crime, in fact, concluded the file and closed the record without knowing any news regarding the daughters of Mukhtar Ansar, who filed a complaint once morest Hussein Fayyad himself in connection with their disappearance on the second of March, the date they went out to dinner accompanied by Fayyad, who took them to the sinister cave to carry out his horrific crime.
In conclusion, the sources reveal that the failure to represent the crime at the place of its occurrence may be due to fear of a repetition of what happened in Ketermaya, when the people took revenge on the murderer and executed him as he committed his crime and did not wait for justice that the Lebanese used to be imperfect.
