The four suspected burglars and murderers of Monday’s crime in Achrafieh were arrested by the police in the Bekaa region on Wednesday. They are the housekeeper and her accomplices, three young men, all of Syrian nationality.
Nazih Turk, a senior resident in a wheelchair, was killed and his wife severely beaten during the burglary of their apartment in the Sioufi district of Achrafieh. According to the initial investigation, the burglars had entered the apartment with the help of the housekeeper. They fled after stealing money, jewelry and gold.
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According to local television channel MTV, citing security sources, the domestic employee, hired in March for a one-month renewable contract through an employment agency that operated without a permit, was “the brains of the operation.” According to the same sources, the burglary had been “carefully thought out and premeditated” by the latter with the help of her accomplices, originally from Aleppo and based in the Palestinian Shatila camp in Beirut.
