November 14, 2026
A horrific crime in Shebaa: A Lebanese man kills his German wife and dissolves her body with acid, and the authorities stop him in Germany
In a horrific crime that went beyond the limits of usual violence, the Lebanese citizen (E.G.) killed his German wife of Algerian origin (K.S.) in the town of Shebaa, before proceeding to dismember her body with an electric saw and dissolve it using acid inside a metal barrel in an attempt to obscure the traces of his crime.
The details of the case, according to data, go back to late October of last year, when the perpetrator came with his daughter from Germany to Lebanon, then lured his wife by asking her to come to Lebanon to receive the child, and it later became clear that he had another family and children in the country. On November 11 of the same year, the victim (K.S.) arrived at Beirut airport, where her husband received her with a bouquet of roses, according to surveillance camera recordings. From that moment, the journey of her disappearance and the cessation of communication with her family in Germany, which filed an official complaint, began.
Following the Lebanese judiciary receiving a correspondence from its German counterpart, the judicial authorities began an investigation. The Cassation Public Prosecutor, Judge Mirna Kallas, assigned the Central Criminal Investigation Department, headed by Brigadier General Nicolas Saad, to collect information and reveal the wife’s fate. During this period, the perpetrator had left Lebanese territory and returned to Germany, accompanied by his daughter.
Despite the difficult security conditions resulting from the Israeli aggression against Lebanon, investigators continued their strenuous efforts and succeeded in locating the perpetrator in the town of Shebaa. With the support of investigations that revealed the existence of a second family of the killer, investigators went to his house in Shebaa, where they found an electric saw and a metal barrel containing wood remains and a white mass resulting from the reaction of acid. Laboratory analyzes showed traces of the victim’s blood on the saw that the perpetrator bought from a store, in addition to examining a car belonging to one of his sons in Lebanon that was used in the crime.
Joint cooperation between the Lebanese and German authorities, under the direct supervision of Judge Kallas over a period of months, resulted in the arrest of the perpetrator in Germany, where he is still on trial. In Lebanon, Judge Klass concluded the investigations and referred the file to the Public Prosecution of Appeal in Nabatieh last September, which in turn issued an arrest warrant in absentia against the accused, given the German authorities’ refusal to extradite him as he holds their nationality.
