Naharnet - Ketermaya Road Reopened after Angry Protest, May 8, 2010

Ketermaya Road Reopened after Angry Protest, Baroud Says Law Doesn't Exclude Anyone
Interior Minister Ziad Baroud stressed that the arrest of three young men on suspicion of involvement in the killing of an Egyptian in Ketermaya came as part of a decision to apply the law on everyone without exceptions.
Baroud told An Nahar newspaper in remarks published Saturday that it was "up to the judiciary to judge."
An Nahar said that one of those arrested was released later Friday.
The arrests came after the gruesome killing last week of Mohammed Msallem, an Egyptian and the prime suspect in the deadly stabbing of an elderly couple and their two granddaughters, aged seven and nine, in the town of Ketermaya.
Msallem was dragged from a police car by an angry mob as he was being driven through the village for a re-enactment of the crime to which he had confessed.
He was then stabbed and beaten to death before being stripped to his underpants and strung up on an electricity pole with a butcher's hook through his chin.
The arrest of the two men, one of them a prime suspect, led villagers to block the road into Ketermaya -- 25 kilometers southeast of Beirut -- with burning tires and rubbish bins.

However, the road was opened by security forces on Friday night.

MTV network identified the two suspects as Abed Saad Ali and Mustafa Alaeddine.


Beirut, 08 May 10, 08:37


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