The Egyptian Public Prosecution revealed new details and surprises related to the murder case of Shaima Gamal in response to the statements of her husband, counsellor Ayman Hajjaj.
In the decision to refer the accused to the Egyptian Criminal Court, the Public Prosecution said that the accused is trying to distance himself from the accusation of “premeditated murder” under the umbrella of “the legitimate defence of life,” according to a number of Egyptian media outlets.
The accused had said that the victim “attacked him with a knife, so he grabbed her hand and hit her with the body of the firearm on her head, so she dropped the knife from her hand, then tried to wake her up. From screaming, the other accused entered the room at that time to encircle her arms until she died, justifying his intent to prevent her screaming for fear of revealing the matter and not taking her soul.”
The Public Prosecution responded to the defendant’s statements, describing the filming as “unreasonable,” revealing that “the knife referred to at the scene of the incident was not seized, and that there were no injuries to the victim, indicating that she had attacked the accused.”
The prosecution referred to “the statements of the accused’s partner in the crime”, revealing that he denied all the allegations of the “murderous counsellor” completely.
The prosecution spoke of “the defendant’s failure to bring up these events during his oral declaration before the Public Prosecution,” considering the counsel’s statements a “desperate, truncated attempt to mitigate the penalty for his crime,” denying the existence of “elements and conditions of legitimate defence” in the defendant’s statements.
And last Wednesday’s session, the Sixth Circuit of the Giza Criminal Court decided to postpone the first session of the trial of the accused, who are being held in pretrial detention, in the case of accusing them of committing the premeditated murder of the broadcaster, to the next August 13 session.
Before the court, the first defendant (Ayman) confessed to killing his media wife, but he denied that he intended to kill her, while the second defendant denied participating in the killing.
Hajjaj attributed his killing of his wife to her threat to him to publish pictures of their marital relationship, photographing her without his knowledge and exposing the matter of their marriage among his peers at work.
