Alia Salameh said, in statements to Sky News Arabia: “Shaima has been my close friend for more than 10 years and she considered me her sister, and presented me to those around her as her cousin as evidence of the strength of our relationship, and I knew everything about her.”
She stressed that “there is no truth, because the reason for the accused’s killing of Shaima is her desire to expose the marriage relationship, because the marriage was official and known to everyone, and the accused is the same who wrote an official report of Shaima’s absence, which means that he was not afraid to know about his marriage to her.”
And she stressed that “the real and strong cause of the crime is known to the fugitive accused alone, and he will be known after his arrest and interrogation.”
Alia revealed that the murdered broadcaster was married before her marriage to the judge and divorced, as her first husband was working in a hotel in Sharm El Sheikh, and she has one daughter from him who is now 11 years old.
She pointed out that Shaima has a single brother, and her relationship with him has been cut off for more than 20 years, and he does not know anything about her.
Searching for the killer
The security services are intensifying their efforts to arrest a judge in one of the important Egyptian judicial authorities, accusing him of killing his wife, TV presenter Shaima Gamal, and a security source confirmed to Sky News Arabia that the accused has not been arrested so far.
The source indicated that the accused works as deputy head of one of the judicial authorities, and that he succeeded in the recent elections for the Board of Directors of the Judges Club of the same entity in which he works. He is working to lift his immunity, and then the Public Prosecution issued an order to seize him and bring him.
The source revealed that all the places where the suspect could escape were monitored and who might be arrested at any moment, in addition to his name being placed among those banned from leaving the country at all Egyptian ports, and on the anticipation lists.
The source indicated that the accused had written a report about the disappearance of his wife, broadcaster Shaima Gamal, 3 weeks ago in a police station in the 6th of October City. For more than 8 years, she was married by common-law before the official marriage, which raised doubts about him.
During the search efforts, the security services received a notification that a driver who was working with the accused reported that the latter had killed his wife and hid her body on a farm on Mansouriya Road in the Badrashin Police Department.
Driver’s certificate
By interrogating the driver, it was found that he attended the killing, as he revealed that he drove the accused’s car with the victim to the mentioned farm, where the accused shot her with his licensed weapon and buried her after mutilating her body. He kept him there for fear of reporting him, then wrote a report of his wife’s absence as a form of disguise, but the driver managed to escape and told the authorities what had happened.
Indeed, the security services went to the aforementioned farm, accompanied by the Public Prosecution, and the body was exhumed in a rotten and mutilated state, and her family was summoned to identify her. They confirmed that she was the missing broadcaster, and the body was transferred for autopsy.
Police investigations revealed that the accused judge was renting to his wife, the announcer, broadcast hours from television channels to present her programs that were famous for causing controversy, but recently a dispute arose between them, and that he was the last person with her before her absence.
For its part, the Egyptian Public Prosecution said in a statement that it had “received a report from a member of one of the judicial authorities about the absence of his victim wife Shaima Gamal, who works as a media person for one of the satellite channels, after her disappearance from a commercial complex in the October area without accusing anyone of causing this, so the Public Prosecution began investigations “.
The Public Prosecution added that in this regard, and due to the membership of the victim’s husband in one of the judicial authorities, the Public Prosecution obtained from that authority a permission to take investigation measures against him regarding the incident in which the accused is accused, and accordingly, the Public Prosecution ordered his arrest and bringing him.
It is worth noting that the murdered anchor was famous for a while as the heroin announcer because she appeared on the screen inhaling a white substance that she described as heroin in fulfillment of a promise she made to one of the callers, which sparked controversy against her and the Media Syndicate decided to stop her from appearing.
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