An agreement between Luqman Slim’s family and the judiciary to hand over his phone … with conditions

Luqman Slim’s phone has not yet been handed over to the investigating authorities. The family of the political activist assassinated on February 4 continues to insist on refusing to hand over the phone to the security services, although it has been almost a month since the crime was committed. In fact, the family puts conditions on the judiciary to hand over the phone, although it is one of the main pieces of evidence that can help uncover the circumstances of the crime. According to the information, Saleem’s family argues that they want guarantees that the security services will not pick up the phone for fear that the contents of the conversations that may offend several of Slim’s friends will be leaked. Al-Akhbar learned that the new pretext for the family is the presence of a will from Al-Qomman in which he requested that none of his electronic devices be handed over to the security services, on the condition that they were not handed over earlier. 30 years. have passed since his death. The family submitted the will to the discrimination prosecutor to verify their statements, noting that it adheres to Luqman’s will. Security sources told Al-Akhbar that an agreement had been reached, which consisted of handing over the phone to the Attorney General for Cassation, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, provided that security agents came to examine it in his office.

Selim recommended that his electronic devices not be disclosed until 30 years after his death.

It should be noted that Selim had also requested in his will that his body be cremated, provided that his ashes were scattered in the places he loved. Al-Akhbar learned that the body remained in a refrigerator inside the American University Hospital before being burned a few days ago, while the monument that was placed in the courtyard of his home does not include a grave.
It should be noted that the Selim family had qualified their positions regarding the handover of the phone. At first, Rasha al-Amir, sister of Luqman Salim, told one of the agents conducting the investigation that she would not hand over the phone to him because she did not trust the security services and the Lebanese judiciary, and spoke of her willingness to Give the phone over to an international investigation committee. The second time, the investigator replied that she knew her brother’s killer, so why did she pick up the phone? The third time she replied that she did not know where the phone was, although she herself had written on her Facebook page the morning of the day her brother was killed and before his body was found: “We found the phone in Niha, the South , and we found neither the car nor Luqman. Where is Luqman?
He said that before returning and he changed his mind again to say that no one asked him to hand over the phone, either from the security or judicial agencies, noting that the investigators from the Information Office went to the family’s home, the day after the crime, in order to receive the telephone, but without being able to receive it.

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