BEIRUT: Twelve people were charged on Wednesday for the mob lynching of an Egyptian murder suspect in a Lebanese village, a court source said.
The prosecutor in Mount Lebanon charged eight detainees and four fugitives with "beating, stabbing and lynching" Mohamed Muslem in Ketermaya, southeast of the capital Beirut, on April 29.
No further details were given on the defendants, except that they were all from Ketermaya, nor on when the trial would begin.
If convicted, they could face the death penalty.
Muslem, 38, was the prime suspect in the deadly stabbing of an elderly couple and their two granddaughters, aged seven and nine, in Ketermaya.
He was dragged from a police car by an angry mob as he was being driven through the village for a re-enactment of the crime to which he had confessed, according to authorities.
He was then stabbed and beaten to death before being stripped to his underpants and strung up on an electricity pole with a butcher’s hook through his chin.
