After the news of her disappearance and later finding of her body in a garbage dump sparked Syrian and Arab public opinion, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed new details regarding the killing of the girl, Joy Istanbouli, which proved the Syrian regime’s involvement in the case and the involvement of “Hezbollah”.
The observatory accused the Syrian intelligence of concealing the details of the real crime, and showing another person named (Madian Al-Ahmad) in the media as the killer, while his death was announced inside Ibn Al-Nafis Hospital in the capital, Damascus.
According to the observatory, “the father of the girl, Jawa, called Tariq Istanbouli, a member of the Fourth Division’s security, whose roadblocks are spread across the roads, received a large sum from the drug dealer (MB), who is from Salhab in Hama countryside and works with Hezbollah, to pass a large shipment of materials. However, the shipment was stolen by unknown persons, according to the claim of the girl’s father.
On the other hand, the drug dealer (MB) threatened the father of the girl, Joy, following the latter refused to return the drug shipment or the amount he received from the former, following claiming that it had been stolen.
The observatory quoted its sources, who confirmed that “a member of the drug dealer group called (MB) kidnapped the girl “Joy” and was with her father in an audio and video call, and he killed her in cold blood in the presence of the so-called (MB), before the alleged killer was smuggled to Lebanon following obtaining an identity card bearing the name of another person “R.
According to the observatory, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma directly intervened, “to fabricate the crime, so that the drug file and its spread in Syria would not be exposed.”