| The Daily Star |
SIDON: A Lebanese lawyer, his wife, and their two young daughters survived a shooting at their home near the southern port city of Sidon Tuesday, a security source said.
The source identified the attorney as 40-year-old Salem Sleem, his wife, Nissrine, and their two daughters – Sandra, 6, and Serena, 2.
The source told The Daily Star the family “miraculously survived” the shooting which took place at dawn Tuesday.
Bullet casings littered the floor of the children’s bedroom in the family home on the outskirts of the village of Sarafand, south of Sidon Tuesday morning.
Police said the attackers had used automatic rifles.
The motive behind the attack was unclear Tuesday. Sleem told The Daily Star he could not rule out a link between it and a 1999 incident in which he was the only witness to the assassination of four Lebanese judges in a Sidon court. According to The Daily Star’s security source, a hearing is shortly to be held over that incident.
The four judges – magistrates Hassan Othman, Walid Harmoush, Assem Bou Daher and Imad Shehab – were shot dead by two gunmen during a session of the trial of two Iraqis and a Palestinian at the South Lebanon Criminal Court at the old Justice Palace in Sidon.
On June 8, on the 12th anniversary of the assassination, Sleem criticized the court for not calling him as a witness in the case.
The source identified the attorney as 40-year-old Salem Sleem, his wife, Nissrine, and their two daughters – Sandra, 6, and Serena, 2.
The source told The Daily Star the family “miraculously survived” the shooting which took place at dawn Tuesday.
Bullet casings littered the floor of the children’s bedroom in the family home on the outskirts of the village of Sarafand, south of Sidon Tuesday morning.
Police said the attackers had used automatic rifles.
The motive behind the attack was unclear Tuesday. Sleem told The Daily Star he could not rule out a link between it and a 1999 incident in which he was the only witness to the assassination of four Lebanese judges in a Sidon court. According to The Daily Star’s security source, a hearing is shortly to be held over that incident.
The four judges – magistrates Hassan Othman, Walid Harmoush, Assem Bou Daher and Imad Shehab – were shot dead by two gunmen during a session of the trial of two Iraqis and a Palestinian at the South Lebanon Criminal Court at the old Justice Palace in Sidon.
On June 8, on the 12th anniversary of the assassination, Sleem criticized the court for not calling him as a witness in the case.
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