by alkhaleejtoday.co — Aden – Yasmine El Tohamy – Syrian national Mohammad Al-Mousa approached the superstar’s luxury villa, perched on a hilly region of Keserwan, in the central Mount Lebanon Governate, armed with a handgun. Three private security guards assigned to the home of one of the most popular performers in the Arab world were powerless as the invader brandished his weapon, securing entry into the property, according to officials now leading the investigation. With the black-clad thief walking freely inside, Ajram’s husband Dr Fadi El Hachem was forced to negotiate. Dr Hachem pleaded that he leave the family home and offered him large sums of money in exchange, An-Nahar reported. Yet Al-Mousa paid no attention his appeals, threatening to kill anyone who dared obstruct him. He then advanced toward the bedroom where the couple’s young daughters slept. At this point, Dr Hachem resolved to take matters in his own hands. A brief exchange of gunfire between the two resulted in the death of Al-Mousa and injured Ajram, one of the most famous female performers in the Middle East

A picture circulating on social media shows her face hidden by her hair, while she is comforted on a couch in the couples’ home, in the aftermath of the shooting. Police were immediately called to the scene, according to Al-Quds. Ghada Oun, public prosecutor of the Mount Lebanon governate, issued an arrest warrant for Dr Hachem. Security officials investigating the incident are likely to consider Dr Hachem’s actions as a use of reasonable force to defend his wife and their children. In 2010, Ajram was announced as the bestselling Middle Eastern female singer of the 21st Century’s first decade, and in 2019 she was declared the region’s most popular celebrity figure, with nearly 18 million followers on Instagram. In June last year, Ajram made headlines with her first concert in Saudi Arabia, where the kingdom ended a decades-long ban on live music.

by naharnet – CCTV footage shows the burglar carrying Ajram’s purse inside the villa and looking for items to steal before encountering the popstar’s husband, Fadi al-Hashem. The husband carries a chair to confront the robber at this point, as the burglar brandishes a gun and asks him to put down the chair and get inside. Al-Hashem said al-Moussa then asked him to give him money from his jacket, which he did, before the robber asked him where “the gold is stored.” “Don’t oblige me to hurt you, Mr. Fadi, let your wife come here immediately,” the husband quotes the slain robber as saying. A number of young men then arrive on the scene at Ajram’s request. CCTV footage shows them searching for the burglar before he appears and threatens them with his gun. He then enters the room of the couple’s children, as al-Hashem manages to get his own gun. “I ran to him like a Kamikaze, I wanted to tear him apart, even if he shoots me,” al-Hashem says in remarks carried by MTV. The CCTV footage then shows what appears to be the exchange of gunfire that left al-Moussa dead. The husband has meanwhile been ordered arrested by Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun for further investigations.