The Public Prosecution issued a permit to bury the body of journalist Shaima Jamal following completing the autopsy procedure, and to take the necessary legal measures, to hand the body over to her family and finish the burial procedures.
The opposition judge at the Giza Court renewed the detention of the victim’s husband, Shaima Gamal, for 15 days pending investigations, accusing him and another of premeditated murder, and investigations are continuing.
The Public Prosecution had denied the validity of the publications and video clips circulated on social networking sites regarding the case of the murder of broadcaster Shaima Jamal, including the claim that the accused, who instructed the body of the victim, was not related to the incident.
Following the issuance of the previous statement on the incident, the Monitoring and Analysis Unit in the Statement Department of the Public Prosecutor’s Office had monitored the circulation of publications and video clips on various social media sites, including the allegation that the accused who had guided the body of the victim was not related to the incident, and that it was not related to the accusation once morest him, and his pre-trial detention without evidence. This is in contrast to the truth that the investigations concluded, as well as the exploitation of some of the incident to delude and promote the existence of discrimination in the investigation procedures and their slowness in relation to other investigations, claiming that consideration is given to the nature of the job of the victim’s husband accused of killing her, contrary to what is supposed and unacceptable.
Accordingly, the Public Prosecution first confirms that the accused, who is being held in pretrial custody in the case, instructed the place of burial of the victim’s body, and following the appearance of the body expressed his desire to make some statements, the result of which was that he admitted in the investigations that the victim’s husband had given him a statement that he was thinking of killing her before She committed the crime for a while, and for this they put together a plan to kill her, and his acceptance of his help in implementing this scheme, and their burial together following killing her in exchange for a sum of money he had promised, so they did what they agreed on, which makes him accused as an original actor in the crime, unlike circulating on social networking sites, the matter With whom the Public Prosecution decided to remand him in custody pending investigations, and the competent court also decided to extend his detention.
Within the framework of the measures taken by the Public Prosecution Office in those investigations since their inception; She had traced the itineraries of the two offenders on the day of the incident to check what was in it of surveillance machines to seize and watch them, and conducted an inspection of one of the relevant housing units, and examined a number of electronic devices, some of which were intentionally destroyed to conceal the information contained in them. The Public Prosecution also interrogated the aforementioned accused, who instructed the body in his detailed statement, and delegated the Forensic Medicine Authority to conduct the anatomical characterization of the victim’s body, examine the biological effects attached to some of the objects found at the crime scene, and inquire from telecommunications companies regarding the data of some operations carried out through slides. Specific telephone numbers, determining their geographical ranges at the time of the accident, and summoning those who have information regarding the incident to hear their testimony.
Then, on Thursday, the thirtieth of June, the Public Prosecution was notified of the arrest of the victim’s husband in implementation of an order to arrest him and bring him in, and he was presented to the competent prosecution for questioning.
