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BEIRUT: Two investigative judges called
Monday for death penalties to be given to three people charged in separate
murder cases, the National News Agency reported.
Sidon’s Investigative Magistrate called
Monday for the death penalty to be handed down to a man charged with the
February murder of a money changer in the southern coastal city.
Sidon’s Examining Magistrate Mounif
Barakat also called for capital punishment for Syrian national Nasser
Fares, 22, for the Feb. 28 robbery and murder of Mohammad Natout.
Fares allegedly stabbed Natout to death
and robbed $5,000 from his store. He confessed to the crime shortly after
his arrest on the day of the killing.
Separately, Beirut Investigative Judge
Riad Abu Ghida called for the death penalty to be given to two Syrian
brothers, George and Michel Tanielian, who were arrested in November for at
least six brutal murders.
An arrest warrant was issued for the
brothers and they were referred to the Military Tribunal for trial on
charges of murdering Corporal Ziad Dib by shooting him with an unlicensed
weapon.
The murder took place on Nov. 11 last year
in the area of Jisr al-Wati on the road adjacent to Beirut River.
Dib was allegedly their 11th victim in a
15-month-killing spree that began when they killed a taxi driver and stole
his car, which they later used to kill other victims.
Following his arrest, Michel Tanielian
told interrogators that he had been responsible for killing 10 people and
had attempted to kill two others.
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