The victim’s father, Muhammad Kanjo, told Sky News Arabia that the accused was arrested in Sweden, and “there are difficulties preventing his transfer to be tried in Lebanon”.
On the other hand, the legal representative of the victim’s family, Lebanese lawyer Ashraf al-Moussawi, said: “The Swedish authorities had arrested Ghazal when he entered its territory surreptitiously, according to an Interpol memorandum issued by the Attorney General of Cassation of Beirut, Judge Ghassan Oweidat.”
Al-Moussawi continued in his interview with “Sky New Arabia”: “Based on the procedures followed between the countries to recover the criminals, the Lebanese authorities have asked their Swedish counterparts to extradite the wanted fugitive from justice in accordance with the principles and legal frameworks, but, in a remarkable stance, the Swedish authorities refused to hand over Ghazal to the Lebanese courts” under the pretext that the Lebanese Penal Code provides for the death penalty for the murderer, which is contrary to the laws followed in Sweden.
Al-Moussawi explained that “Swedish authorities sought guarantees from their Lebanese counterparts that Ghazal would not be executed if extradited (and found guilty of the crime), which angered and disapproved of the victim’s family. “.
The victim’s lawyer confirmed that “Aweidat categorically refused to give guarantees to the Swedish authorities not to execute Ghazal if convicted, because the Lebanese Penal Code intentionally refers to the death penalty for the murderer, and the non-enforcement of the penalty requires an amendment of the legal text in Parliament, and there is an impossibility of this in the “present” circumstances.
And Mousawi considered that “the Swedish authorities, with this decision, have violated the principle of the sovereignty of the Lebanese national state over its territory”, suggesting that they “will release Ghazal at any time, so that we face a new tragedy and another murder in which a potential killer escapes punishment, and a crisis between the two Lebanese and Swedish governments.
It should be noted that the Lebanese model, Zina Kanjo, was killed by suffocation at the marital home in Beirut, and according to the forensic report at the time, the death took place while “holding her breath”, in one case. where her husband was accused and angered the Lebanese, because he spoke of a series of similar crimes whose investigations had not led to a decisive conclusion.
The husband of the victim accused of killing her had left Lebanon immediately after committing his crime via Rafic Hariri International Airport, heading for Istanbul.
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