Beirut’s First Investigative Judge Ghassan Oueidat issued an indictment Wednesday for a man who allegedly killed his ex-wife, fled to Syria, and later came back and handed himself in, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Oueidat issued the indictment for the murder of Nada Bahlawan, “at the hands of her ex-husband,” NNA said. Bahlawan was shot and killed on Jan. 22 on the street in Beirut’s Ras al-Nabeh by a man identified by eyewitnesses and via CCTV as her husband, Fadi Ghazi Askar, a security source said at the time.
In his decision, Oueidat called for the death penalty for Askar on the grounds that he committed a felony under Article 549 of the Penal Code, as well as an offense under Article 73 of the Weapons Act for the transfer of an unauthorized hunting gun.
The NNA reported that the defendant fled the scene, leaving to Syria, where he stayed for some time, before returning in February to hand himself in to Lebanon’s General Security.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
