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Famed Lebanese television director Simon Asmar was arrested on Saturday<\/a> in connection with the murder of 27-year-old Mohamad Ragheb Al Darwish, a Syrian national who reportedly worked at Asmar\u2019s restaurant, Nahr Al Founoun.<\/p>\n

Darwish’s body was found last week on the outskirts of the Kesrouan town of Shahtoul. He had been stabbed and shot in the head three times.<\/p>\n

Reports from both Al-Jadeed news<\/a> and LBC news<\/a> over the weekend suggested Darwish was trying to blackmail Asmar with what were described as “suspicious videos.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Asmar\u2019s son, Bashir, denied his father had been accused of Darwish’s murder in a Tweet<\/a> he sent out on Saturday, saying Simon had been interrogated only because the victim had worked at one of his father’s restaurants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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