Cairo police: Tamim's murder suspect is alive Published: Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 @ 7:09 AM in Beirut On Monday, many Egyptian press reports said the suspect had committed suicide in custody. Some other reports said he had suffered a heart attack and was admitted to hospital. Egyptian police on Tuesday told Gulf News that the suspect was healthy.
Suzan was murdered in her luxury Dubai Marina Apartment on July 28. Almost two weeks after the crime, Dubai police announced they had identified the suspect who had been arrested in an Arab country. Reports in the Arab press yesterday said the editor of an Egyptian weekly, Al Tareeq, had been questioned by police in Cairo over a report on the murder.
This came two days after prosecutors in Cairo questioned the editor of another Egyptian daily Al Dustour for running a story on the crime. Two reporters of the daily were also summoned for questioning. Gulf News learnt that four journalists had been questioned yesterday over reports on the murder.
According to Arabic websites, Jamal Assi, Editor-in-Chief of Al Tareeq, was referred to court for violating a ban on publishing a report about investigations involving suspects in the case. Al Tareeq had published a story, which linked Egyptian tycoon Hesham Talaat Mustafa to the crime. It quoted sources as saying he had hired a former police officer who slit her throat for a fee of Dh4 million ( $1.1 million) .
Al Dustour carried a report that two hotel security men from Cairo had confessed to killing her on behalf of an Egyptian client. One said they received $2 million for the job. The murder 'took 12 minutes' Five hours after Dubai Police were informed of Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim's death, the suspected killer, a 39-year-old Arab national, was identified, said a senior police official."It took 12 minutes for the murderer to enter the building, kill the victim and leave," Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, Acting Chief of Dubai Police told a press conference on Sunday in Dubai.
"The murder was premeditated and the planning was cunning and highly professional," Al Mazeina said. The singer was murdered in her apartment in Jumeirah Beach Residence on July 28. The police found her body later that evening, several hours after the incident was "Tamim had a driving test scheduled the morning when she was killed.
She had ordered a taxi to meet her under her building at 9am in order to take her to the driving institute. The taxi driver called her several times but she neither answered nor did she meet him. "This suggests she was killed before 9am.
" The singer was found fully dressed and ready to leave the house. The murderer had managed to pass through the building's security without being asked for identification. In order to convince Tamim to let him into her apartment, he showed her, through the building's video intercom, an envelope showing the logo of the real estate company which had recently sold her the apartment she was residing in.
Police said in all probability this was the reason that made her open the door for him. One and half hours after the crime was committed, the suspect left the UAE and headed to another Arab county, which Mazeina refused to name. The assassin had walked in wearing two layers of clothes, executed the crime, and then got rid of the clothes in the building.
The police found his clothes and used them as evidence. The morning Tamim was killed, her relatives had been calling her but she did not answer. One of her relatives went to her apartment and found her body lying next to the entrance; the door was open.
Her throat was slit with a knife. Tamim had moved to the UAE in July and bought the apartment 10 days before the crime was committed, police said. Al Mazeina refuted reports that pictures on the building's security camera led to the suspect's arrest.
"We had enough and more important evidence in the apartment that led to the identification of the suspect," he said. The way she was killed further helped narrow down investigations, he added. Justice: Father's relief Abdul Sattar Tamim, Tamim's father, told Gulf News that he was relieved that the suspect has been arrested.
He expressed his gratitude to Dubai Police and said that he was thankful that justice had started to prevail."I thank God for the way things are developing. I trust that the result will be positive God willing. I thank Dubai Police for their efficiency," he told Gulf News.
He refused to comment further as he is currently in a period of grieving and is still receiving mourners. Buried in Lebanon Tamim's body was flown to Beirut , Lebanon and was taken to her house in Aisha Bakkar in western Beirut where thousands showed up for her funeral . She was buried on August 4 in Beirut .
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