The Bachir ice cream shop, on Independence Street in Achrafieh, closed on June 20, 2025, the day after a crime occurred on its premises. (Credit: Nemtala Eddé/L'Orient-Le Jour)
“Hello, do we know more about the murder at Bachir?” a passerby asked, speaking to the owner of a grocery store near the famous Achrafieh ice cream shop on Independence Street, which remained unusually closed on Friday. Residents of the neighborhood had woken up to news of a body discovered in the shop’s back room the night before.A person named S.H. (15 years old) is suspected of killing Kh.H. (22 years old, father of a two-year-old daughter), both Syrian nationals and recently employed in the shop for maintenance, according to consistent testimonies from the owners of neighboring stores. A version confirmed to L'Orient-Le Jour by Édouard Bachir, grandson of the founder of the emblematic ice cream shop in Bickfaya.A 15-year-old boy identified as S.H. is suspected of killing Kh.H., a 22-year-old Syrian national and father of a...
“Hello, do we know more about the murder at Bachir?” a passerby asked, speaking to the owner of a grocery store near the famous Achrafieh ice cream shop on Independence Street, which remained unusually closed on Friday. Residents of the neighborhood had woken up to news of a body discovered in the shop’s back room the night before.A person named S.H. (15 years old) is suspected of killing Kh.H. (22 years old, father of a two-year-old daughter), both Syrian nationals and recently employed in the shop for maintenance, according to consistent testimonies from the owners of neighboring stores. A version confirmed to L'Orient-Le Jour by Édouard Bachir, grandson of the founder of the emblematic ice cream shop in Bickfaya.A 15-year-old boy identified as S.H. is suspected of killing Kh.H., a 22-year-old Syrian national and father of a...
