It was not even seven in the morning on March 7 when a jogger made the gruesome discovery. Next to a car in a parking lot near Uddevalla Hospital were two lifeless people. Police were alerted to the scene and shortly thereafter found one more person – all three were dead – shot in the heads.
Three shots to the head
The victims, Alaa Farraj, 21, Rawand Aziz, 22 and his 18-year-old girlfriend were all shot to death.
Alaa Farraj had been shot four shots, as well as Rawand Aziz, including three in the head or neck. The woman has been shot with a bullet to the head.
One of brothers, Mark Saliba, 23, and his one year younger brother, was arrested the day after the murders. One of the police task force, the other a half hour later when he surrendered himself to the police.
A third man, a 21 year old, was indicted on suspicion of taxi delivering a crisp loaded gun to the suspects.
Enraged by her father robbed
Both Mark Saliba and his younger brother, consistently refused to have anything to do with the murders. But in a final interrogation shortly before the indictment would be submitted suddenly told the younger brother of things he had not previously said. The hearing was held after he had read through what has emerged so far during the preliminary investigation.
– I had hoped it would come forth things that freed me from responsibility for the crime.
But because it is not done that, he wanted to tell you now:
He says he and his brother had been at home with their father and learned that he had been robbed by masked men. They were upset.
He says big brother later got a gun by a mutual friend and they then arranged a meeting with Alaa Farraj, but before they arrive at the rendezvous jump the little brother of the moped.
– I sat there for a moment and suddenly heard shots. I got scared and ran towards the direction where the sound of the shots came, he said in the interview.
“Told me not to talk”
Although he did not directly pointed out the big brother Mark Saliba as the one who shot it is difficult to interpret the interview in any other way.
He says among other things that the person that he meets at the crime scene tells him not to talk about what happened. In the next interrogation he says:
– The person who dropped me ( something which he has previously said was his brother, editor’s note ), urged me not to talk about something that happened.
And the court believed what he told me.
A few days after the trial ended was declared the younger brother and abetting indicted 21-year-old on the loose. Mark Saliba was convicted of Uddevalla District Court to Act harshest punishment for murder, life imprisonment.
“It is in its view not to judge Mark Salibas deed, murder of three persons, other than as a particularly serious cases of murder. The penalty should be fixed at life imprisonment, “wrote the law.
” The shooting can be described as executions, which is particularly evident when it comes to women. “
” The Memorandum ”
Today came the Court of Appeal judgment.
The judge also Martin Saliba, the younger brother, to life in prison.
The Court of Appeal believes that it is proven that both brothers were at the crime scene.
” The evidence against the brothers is sufficient for it to be found that both were at the scene when the shooting took place and that it was one of them or both of who fired the shots. Although it can not be established exactly who did what the study shows that the brothers jointly undertook several actions before the shootings and then went to the crime scene together, “the Court of Appeal in a press release.
– It is thus established that the crime was carried out by the brothers together and in concert, writes the Court of Appeal judgment.
“Do not had contact”
Martin Saliba, 22, was arrested in connection with the Court of Appeal hearing in his absence. And he still has not gripts. He is now an international wanted list.
His lawyer Claes Östlund says he does not know where his client is, and has not had contact with him since the Court of Appeal hearing.
– But I am disappointed in the judgment, of course. I thought the district court correctly assessed.
Prosecutor Per Erik Rinsell is satisfied with the verdict.
– It is admirably written, and I am naturally pleased that the right share our view of guilt.
The second prosecutor in the case, Viktoria Karlsson says to Aftonbladet that they have information on where Martin Saliba located.
– We know where he is.
Is he in custody in another country?
– We know where he is, more than that, I can not say. He is wanted both nationally and internationally.
