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The Merchant Who Married a Bad Omen · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: I want you to picture a scene, just put yourself
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of it. It's late December twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. You are standing on a busy commercial street
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  Speaker 1: in most Arod, that's in Shubra Alcheima, and it's cold.
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  Speaker 1: The air has that sharp winter chill. The street is
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  Speaker 1: absolute chaos. You've got cars honking, microbusses weaving through traffic,
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  Speaker 1: people rushing by, bundled up in heavy coats. It's loud,
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  Speaker 1: it's sensory overload.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a typical bustling Egyptian neighborhood in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Of winter, exactly. And right in the middle of this
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  Speaker 1: block there's a household goods store. It's brightly lit, packed
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  Speaker 1: with appliances, washing machines, refrigerators, and inside it's warm. It's
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  Speaker 1: a refuge from the street. You've got customers browsing, staff
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  Speaker 1: walking the floor. It all feels completely ordinary.
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  Speaker 2: But it's that ordinary feeling that makes what happens next
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  Speaker 2: completely jarring, because the atmosphere in that shop shatters in
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  Speaker 2: an instant, It really does.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because suddenly, cutting through the hum of the appliances
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  Speaker 1: and the street noise outside, there is a scream.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a scream of fear. According to the witness statements,
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  Speaker 2: it was sharp, it was violent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The staff freezes, The customers just stop dead in
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  Speaker 1: their tracks. Turning toward the back of the shop. There
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  Speaker 1: is this confusing scuffle. It's just a blur of sudden movement,
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  Speaker 1: and then a man stumbles out from the back office.
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  Speaker 2: This is Ahmadel Shahawi.
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  Speaker 1: He owns the place, he does, and he's a pillar
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  Speaker 1: of this community. People know him. But right now he
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  Speaker 1: is stumbling out of his own shop, clutching his chest.
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  Speaker 1: Blood is rapidly seeping through his shirt, staining at dark.
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  Speaker 1: He makes it out to the pavement, the cold air
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  Speaker 1: hitting him, and he just collapses.
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  Speaker 2: The panic in the crowd is absolute. People are rushing
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  Speaker 2: to him. Someone is calling for an ambulance. But the
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  Speaker 2: detail that really locks you in, the thing you can't
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  Speaker 2: look away from, is the woman who walks out of
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  Speaker 2: the shop right after him.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't run, no.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't run at all. She walks out calmly. She
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  Speaker 2: looks at the crowd, looks at this dying man, and
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  Speaker 2: she claims self defense. She essentially says she did what
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  Speaker 2: she had to do.
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  Speaker 1: And as the sirens start wailing in the getting closer.
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  Speaker 1: You might look at this and think, okay, a robbery
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  Speaker 1: gone wrong, or maybe a sudden, tragic, psychotic break. But
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  Speaker 1: we are doing a deep dive into this entire case
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  Speaker 1: file today and I can tell you right now this
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  Speaker 1: wasn't random, not even slightly. This was the culmination of
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  Speaker 1: a four year nightmare. Today we are unpacking a very specific,
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  Speaker 1: terrifying dynamic. We're looking at the concept of Adam al.
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  Speaker 2: Shar the foot of evil. We're a bad omen.
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  Speaker 1: Right, It's this cultural idea that some people just by
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  Speaker 1: entering your life bring ruin. They are a curse. And
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  Speaker 1: the big question we have to answer today is how
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  Speaker 1: does a man like Ahmed, a wealthy, respected, deeply intelligent
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  Speaker 1: family man, let a bad omen into his life? How
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  Speaker 1: does he get dragged into a spiral of destruction that
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  Speaker 1: literally everyone around him saw coming.
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  Speaker 2: It's a psychological puzzle, yeah, because on paper, Ahmed is
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  Speaker 2: the absolute last person you would expect to become a
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  Speaker 2: victim of this kind of targeted destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Let's wind the clock back. We need to look at
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  Speaker 1: who Ahmed was before any of this started. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to early twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the baseline of his life in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, the man is basically untouchable. He comes
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  Speaker 2: from a very prominent, highly respected family. In most rod
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  Speaker 2: they aren't just doing okay. They own multiple branches of
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  Speaker 2: these successful household appliance stores.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Ahmed isn't just a silent partner. He's the manager.
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  Speaker 1: He's the financial engine of the family business.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. He's financially very secure, and his personal life matches
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  Speaker 2: that stability. He's been married to his first wife for
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  Speaker 2: seventeen years. They have three children together. He is deeply
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  Speaker 2: connected to his brothers. His whole life is built on routine,
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  Speaker 2: respect and providing for others.
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  Speaker 1: He's the classic fixer, the guy everyone else goes to
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  Speaker 1: and they have a problem.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm so glad you use that word fixer, because
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  Speaker 2: there's a huge misconception out there about how predators choose
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  Speaker 2: their targets.
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  Speaker 1: You mean, how we assume they only go after a
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable or isolated people.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, we think they want someone weak, but highly sophisticated
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  Speaker 2: emotional predators, they actually target the capable, get the fixers.
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  Speaker 2: Because a fixer has resources, a fixer has an ego
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  Speaker 2: tied up in being.
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  Speaker 1: The hero, which brings us to Asthma.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, hey, Asthma.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at the employee statements from the shop in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. Her behavior is a massive red flag from
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  Speaker 1: day one. She wasn't just a normal customer popping in
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  Speaker 1: to look at a blunder.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. Yeah, she was visiting the shop daily,
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  Speaker 2: and she wasn't buying anything. She was observing. She was
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  Speaker 2: watching the workflow, watching who was in.
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  Speaker 1: Charge, grooming the environment.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she would specifically dress up and groon herself to
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  Speaker 2: catch Ahmed's eye. She would bypass the other floor workers entirely.
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  Speaker 2: She would just wait. She'd wait for those rare moments
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  Speaker 2: when Ahmed was alone or less busy, and she would
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  Speaker 2: target him directly.
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  Speaker 1: It's chilling when you realize what she was setting up.
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  Speaker 1: And then comes the trap. She finally gets them in
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  Speaker 1: a conversation, and she deploys this perfect custom built.
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  Speaker 2: Narrative damsel in distress.
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  Speaker 1: Right, she tells him she's a divorced mother. She claims
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  Speaker 1: she's completely vulnerable, seeking protection. But she added, it's this
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  Speaker 1: fascinating twist. She doesn't say she's just a poor woman
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  Speaker 1: off the street. She claims she comes from a highly prestigious,
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  Speaker 1: wealthy family in the Menufia governor it, but she's fallen
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  Speaker 1: on hard times.
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  Speaker 2: It's a brilliant psychological hook. By claiming she used to
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  Speaker 2: be wealthy and prestigious, she makes herself an equal to
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  Speaker 2: him in status, just temporarily down on her luck. She
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  Speaker 2: tells him she needs a real man to support her
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  Speaker 2: and protect her from the world.
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  Speaker 1: It appeals to his ego completely.
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  Speaker 2: It appeals to his ego, his chivalry, and his savior
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  Speaker 2: complex all at once, and he falls for it entirely.
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  Speaker 2: He decides to marry her.
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  Speaker 1: Which I have to pause here. This is the part
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  Speaker 1: that is so hard to wrap your head around. He
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  Speaker 1: has a wife of seventeen years, a stable home, and
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  Speaker 1: he just pivots to marrying a woman he met in
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  Speaker 1: his shop.
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  Speaker 2: It happens faster than you'd think. The documentation suggests he
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  Speaker 2: was probably feeling the friction of a highly routine life,
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  Speaker 2: seventeen years of the same grind. And then as Lassma
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  Speaker 2: comes along and she is love bombing him. She's making
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  Speaker 2: and feel like a superhero. It's an intoxicating high.
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  Speaker 1: What about the first wife, how does she react to
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  Speaker 1: this sudden second marriage?
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the quieter tragedies in this file. She
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  Speaker 2: is understandably shocked, devastated, but she makes a very calculated,
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  Speaker 2: painful choice. She chooses silence to protect the kids, yes,
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  Speaker 2: to preserve the stability of their home. She essentially steps
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  Speaker 2: back and lets him play out this fantasy, probably hoping
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  Speaker 2: it would just burn itself out.
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  Speaker 1: But the fantasy doesn't just burn out. It implodes almost
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  Speaker 1: immediately because right after they get married, the mask slips,
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  Speaker 1: the whole foundation of lies asthma built starts to crumble.
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  Speaker 2: Right because remember that prestigious Manufia family she bragged about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the fallen nobility angle.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Ahmed eventually travels to Manufia and he starts asking around,
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  Speaker 2: and he discovers that her family is known all right,
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  Speaker 2: but not for prestige. They have a notoriously dark reputation
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  Speaker 2: in the region.
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  Speaker 1: The locals explicitly warn him. They tell him our family
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  Speaker 1: is heavily involved into shawl.
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  Speaker 2: Now, for anyone listening who isn't familiar with the cultural
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  Speaker 2: weight of that word, dashall roughly translates to charlatanism or sorcery,
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  Speaker 2: but it means so much more than that in this context.
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  Speaker 1: Right it's not just doing parlor tricks.
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  Speaker 2: No, it implies deep systemic moral corruption. It means these
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  Speaker 2: are people who traffic in deception, manipulation, and extortion. They
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  Speaker 2: prey on superstitious fears to scam people. Being associated with
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  Speaker 2: a family of Dejelen is social suicide for a respected
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  Speaker 2: merchant like Ahmed.
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  Speaker 1: And he also finds out Asthma herself has a history
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  Speaker 1: of causing trouble. She was never this innocent, helpless victim
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  Speaker 1: she pretended to be. So he has this massive revelation.
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  Speaker 1: He realizes he's married a con artist.
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  Speaker 2: He confronts her, and this is where a healthy person
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  Speaker 2: would say, I've been lied to, I'm getting an annulment,
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  Speaker 2: I'm done exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You cut your losses.
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  Speaker 2: But Asthma is a master manipulator. When he confronts her
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  Speaker 2: with these explosive lies, she doesn't deny it, She spins it.
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  Speaker 2: She tells him I only lied because I was terrified
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  Speaker 2: of losing you. I knew if you saw where I came,
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't love me.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: She weaponizes his own empathy. She traps him with guilt.
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  Speaker 2: She essentially says, you can't choose your family, and I
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  Speaker 2: need you to save me from them even.
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  Speaker 1: More now, and it works. Instead of running for the hills,
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  Speaker 1: he actually leans in. He starts fulfilling his promise to
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  Speaker 1: be the big provider. He starts fully supporting not just her,
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  Speaker 1: but her entire family, the very people he knows are scammers.
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  Speaker 2: He becomes their financial host, and once that money is secured,
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  Speaker 2: the cycle of toxicity ramps up to the next level.
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  Speaker 2: She begins the isolation phase.
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  Speaker 1: This is a classic abuser tactic textbook.
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  Speaker 2: She wants to sever his ties to his previous life
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  Speaker 2: whenever he tries to visit his first wife or his
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  Speaker 2: three children. Asthma explodes and I don't mean she gets poudy.
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  Speaker 2: The testimonies describe extreme violent rage. She believes she owned
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  Speaker 2: him entirely.
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  Speaker 1: It's suffocating, but Ahmed does try to push back here
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  Speaker 1: right he tries to set some boundaries.
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  Speaker 2: He does, and the moment he shows resistance, she goes nuclear.
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  Speaker 2: He tries to enforce a boundary and Asthma immediately goes
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  Speaker 2: toraight to the police station. She files a formal report
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  Speaker 2: claiming that Ahmed beat her physically, and.
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  Speaker 1: She even brings a medical report to back it up.
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  Speaker 2: A medical report that was completely fabricated. But think about
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  Speaker 2: the psychological terror here. For a man whose entire business
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  Speaker 2: and standing rely on his clean reputation in the community,
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  Speaker 2: having the police investigate him for domestic violence is his
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  Speaker 2: absolute worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: It's a direct threat to his livelihood exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Ahmed does manage to prove the report is malicious. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he clears his name legally, but the damage is done.
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  Speaker 2: The humiliation's public, the community is talking. It's the final
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  Speaker 2: straw for him. At that moment, he divorces her.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's the first divorce. He finally gets out,
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  Speaker 1: but freedom.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't free with someone like Asthma. She refuses to leave
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  Speaker 2: his life. She extorts him. She demands two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand Egyptian pounds just to walk away and leave
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  Speaker 2: him alone.
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  Speaker 1: That is a staggering amount of cash to just hand
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  Speaker 1: over to an abuser.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and Ahmed, out of sheer principle, refuses to
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  Speaker 2: pay it. H harassment is so intense that his brother,
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  Speaker 2: who we know he's very close to. His brother, steps
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  Speaker 2: in and pays the two hundred and fifty thousand out
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  Speaker 2: of his own pocket just to buy Ahmed's freedom, just
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  Speaker 2: to get this woman out of their family's life.
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  Speaker 1: The brother pays the ransom. He does so she has
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  Speaker 1: a fortune in cash. She's divorced, she's gone. You'd think, okay,
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  Speaker 1: a hard lesson learned.
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  Speaker 2: But it's over if only the peace barely lasts because
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  Speaker 2: despite the extortion, the fake police reports, the public humiliation
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  Speaker 2: as Marada starts calling him again.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the part of the deep dive that
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  Speaker 1: will frustrate anyone listening, because she lures him back.
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  Speaker 2: She plays on his emotions perfectly. She tells him that
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  Speaker 2: all the crazy things she did the police, the screaming,
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  Speaker 2: all just because she loves him so much, is crazy,
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  Speaker 2: blinding jealousy.
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  Speaker 1: And he buys it. After she took his brother's money.
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  Speaker 2: He does he remarries her.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we really have to break this down. Why
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  Speaker 1: does a smart, successful businessman walk right back into a
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  Speaker 1: burning building.
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  Speaker 2: It's a combination of things. First, there's the sunk cost fallacy.
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  Speaker 2: He's already lost so much money and reputation on this relationship.
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  Speaker 2: His brain tricks him into thinking he needs to make
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  Speaker 2: it work to justify the losses. Second, there's shame. Admitting
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  Speaker 2: you were KHN is deeply embarrassing. If he can somehow
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  Speaker 2: fix her. He proves he wasn't a fool.
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  Speaker 1: He still thinks his love can cure the bad omen exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, the highs in the cycle of abuse are
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  Speaker 2: very addictive. When she apologized, she likely love bombed him
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  Speaker 2: all over again, making him feel like a god who
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  Speaker 2: showed her mercy.
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  Speaker 1: But mercy to a predator is just an invitation to
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  Speaker 1: take more. Because after this second marriage, the mask is
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  Speaker 1: completely gone. She doesn't even try to play the damsel anymore.
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  Speaker 2: The relationship turns incredibly dark. She starts openly threatening him,
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  Speaker 2: and she hits him where it hurts the most. She
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  Speaker 2: threatens his children from his first marriage.
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  Speaker 1: And she uses her family's reputation for this right. She
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  Speaker 1: threatens to use dashall dark sorcery against his kids.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, now, whether you believe in that or not, hearing
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  Speaker 2: your spouse threatened to use dark magic against your children
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  Speaker 2: is psychological terrorism. It proves she has absolute malice towards
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  Speaker 2: the people you love. And she doesn't stop there. She
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  Speaker 2: threatens physical violence. She tells him she will send Boltagia
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  Speaker 2: hired thugs to attack him and his.
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  Speaker 1: Brother's She's threatening to bring street violence to his doorstep.
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  Speaker 1: He must have been living in constant fear. He was
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  Speaker 1: completely paralyzed, and it escalated to outright theft. One day,
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  Speaker 1: Ahmed comes back to their apartment and it is empty.
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  Speaker 1: She has stolen all the furniture, clean the.
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  Speaker 2: Place out, and the gas lighting that follows is almost unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: When he confronts her about the stolen furniture, she apologizes
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  Speaker 2: and says, my family forced me to do it. They
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  Speaker 2: made me take it so that you wouldn't be able.
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  Speaker 1: To leave me, making herself the victim again.
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  Speaker 2: Always the victim, and he forgives her again.
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  Speaker 1: But the tension is just building. It's unsustainable, which leads
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  Speaker 1: to the infamous window scene.
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  Speaker 2: Right, this is pure calculated public shaming. They're in the
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  Speaker 2: apartment and she suddenly runs to the window, throws it open,
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  Speaker 2: and just starts screaming to the entire neighborhood that Ahmed is.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to kill her, even though he isn't touching her.
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  Speaker 2: Not a finger on her. Yeah, it's pure theater, designed
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  Speaker 2: to destroy his reputation in the neighborhood. She knows his
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  Speaker 2: weakness is public shame, and she leverages it mercilessly.
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  Speaker 1: And this force is the second divorce, he has to
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  Speaker 1: cut ties again.
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  Speaker 2: He does, but just like the first time, she retaliates.
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  Speaker 2: She unleashes a barrage of malicious police reports, not just
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  Speaker 2: against Ahmed this time, but against his brothers too. She's
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  Speaker 2: sending a clear message, you cannot have peace unless you
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  Speaker 2: are with me. I will haunt you and your entire family.
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  Speaker 1: And incredibly exhaustingly, he goes back a third time.
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  Speaker 2: He returns for a third time, and at this point
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  Speaker 2: it's not love, It's just sheer exhaustion. He's a hostage
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  Speaker 2: trying to placate his captors to the torture will stop.
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  Speaker 1: But every hostage situation eventually reaches a breaking point. For Ahmed.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't the money, it wasn't the furniture, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even his own reputation. The line he finally couldn't let
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  Speaker 1: her cross involve his mother.
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  Speaker 2: We are moving into the final timeline now late twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five. Ahmed's mother suffers a major health crisis and
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  Speaker 2: is hospitalized.
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  Speaker 1: This is a massive family emergency, and the contrast here
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  Speaker 1: is so stark. The case files note that Ahmed's first
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  Speaker 1: wife is at the hospital. She's sitting by the bed
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  Speaker 1: caring for his mother, acting exactly how family should act
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  Speaker 1: in a crisis.
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  Speaker 2: Showing loyalty. Yeah, but Ozma, Ozma refuses to let Ahmed
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  Speaker 2: go to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: She actually tries to stop a man from seeing his
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  Speaker 1: dying mother.
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  Speaker 2: She tells him point blank that he shouldn't waste his
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  Speaker 2: money on his mother because he has two households to support.
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  Speaker 2: She shows zero empathy none. To her, Ahmed's mother is
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  Speaker 2: just a drain on the resources that rightfully belong to Ozma.
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  Speaker 1: It's just incredibly cold, and when Ahmed decides he is
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  Speaker 1: going anyway, she escalates.
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  Speaker 2: To physical destruction to stop him. She takes a heavy
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  Speaker 2: object and completely smashes the windshield of his car so
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  Speaker 2: he can't drive to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: And the sound of the glass shattering that is the
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  Speaker 1: moment the spell finally breaks for Ahmed.
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  Speaker 2: It was his wake up call. Yeah, He's looking at
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  Speaker 2: his smash car, knowing his mother is in a hospital bed,
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  Speaker 2: and he's looking at this woman demanding money. He finally
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  Speaker 2: sees the truth that everyone else has seen for four years.
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  Speaker 2: She is never ever going to change. She is a
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  Speaker 2: black hole.
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  Speaker 1: So he divorces her the third and final time, and
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  Speaker 1: this time it's absolute. The financial tap is turned off permanently.
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  Speaker 2: The relationship is officially over.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us to a really eerie period. In the
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  Speaker 1: case the ten days of.
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  Speaker 2: Silence following that third divorce, there is a brief window
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  Speaker 2: of calm. For ten days. Ahmed goes back to his
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  Speaker 2: normal life. He visits his mother, he spends time with
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  Speaker 2: his first wife, he goes to the shop. He probably
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  Speaker 2: felt this massive wave of relief, thinking he had finally
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  Speaker 2: survived the storm.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't just lock the door on a bat omen.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: They find a way in. We are now back to
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: the day of the murder. The scene we opened with
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: this is a normal workday.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Ahmed has already visited his mother that morning, he's at
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: the shop, and significantly, his first wife and his son
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: are actually present at the shop that day.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: He's surrounded by his real family. And then Asthma storms
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: through the door.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: She is completely unhinged. She's screaming, she's cursing. She is
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: deliberately trying to provoke a massive public confrontation.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: But Ahmed doesn't take the bait. The evidence shows he
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: tries to de escalate. He turns his back and starts
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: walking away from her. Heading toward the accountant's office in
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: the back, and.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: There's this detail that just breaks your heart. The accountant
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: wasn't at his desk, he was in the back praying.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Ahmed was literally walking toward a place of peace.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: But Asthma didn't come for an argument, she came prepared.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: She had a knife hidden in her clothes. She follows him,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: screaming insults in front of his staff, trying to get
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: him to react, trying to get him to raise a
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: hand so she can claims self defense.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Finally, Ahmed turns around and approaches her, just trying to
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: physically escort her out of the building.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: She pushes him. He reaches out to restrain her hands
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: to stop her from hitting him, and in that split second,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: she pulls the hidden knife and.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: She stabs him directly in the chest, right there in
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the middle of his own shop, surrounded by his employees
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and family.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: It's a fatal blow, yeahm It stumbles backward, completely in shock.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: He makes his way out to the street, clutching his
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: chest and he collapses, and.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: We are back to that haunting moment where she just
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: walks out behind him. She doesn't free. She looks at
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the crowd looks at the man she just destroyed, and
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: she delivers this chilling line.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: She tells them, I did it so no one else
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: could benefit from him.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: It's the ultimate abuser's logic. If I can't have you,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I will make sure nobody else can. He wasn't a
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: human being to her, he was property.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: But the sheer, cold blooded calculation doesn't end with the stabbing,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: because what she does next is arguably the most demonic
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: part of the entire file.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Right while Ahmed is bleeding out on the pavement, Asma
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: leaves the scene and heads straight to the local police station.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: But before she walks in, she physically injures herself. She
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: inflicts a wound on her own head.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: She's manufacturing evidence. She walks into the station, bleeding for
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: the head and files a frantic report, but she doesn't
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: claim Ahmed attacked her.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Now she targets the brother.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: She accuses this is Ahmed's grieving brother of attacking her.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: She tells the police that the brother tried to kill
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: her and that Ahmed died while try to defend her
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: from his own brother.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: It is breath takingly evil. She murders the man and
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: then tries to send his innocent brother to prison for.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: It, and it almost worked. The police respond immediately. They
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: arrive at the hospital where the brother is standing over
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Ahmed's body, completely shattered by grief, and the police move
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: in to arrest him because at that moment, it's her
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: bleeding face and her word against his.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But she made one massive mistake. She forgot about the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: unblinking eye in the corner of the shop, the CCTV camera.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: That camera was the only thing that saved the brother.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: The police pulled the footage from the shop and the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: truth is right there in high definition.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It shows everything. It shows Asthma entering aggressively, It shows
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: her initiating the contact, It shows her pulling the knife
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and plunging it into Ahmed, and most importantly, it shows
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that the brother wasn't even in the room.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: The footage absolutely destroys her narrative. It saves the brother
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: from a life behind blaus. It couldn't save Ahmed.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: When you look back at this whole timeline, the grooming
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, the fake medical reports, the extortion,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the stolen furniture, the threats of sorcery, and finally the knife,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: it really makes you sit with that concept of Adam
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: El shar It.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Really does, because we have this fundamental, hopeful belief that
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: if we put good into the world, if we are
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: generous and forgiving, we will be protected. Ahmed was a
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: profoundly good man. He provided, you, forgave, He.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Tried to heal things, but those virtues were exactly the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: vulnerabilities she exploited.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: That's the terrifying reality. The bad omen isn't a ghost
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: or a curse. It's a real person who simply refuses
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: to abide by the social contract. Ahmed kept waiting for
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: her to act human. He kept waiting for her to
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: feel shame or gratitude or empathy, but she was constitutionally
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: incapable of those emotions. He was trying to play chess,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: and she was just burning the board.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: He underestimated this sheer depth of her malice. He thought
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: he could fix the unfixable, and it cost him his life.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: It's a devastating tragedy, but it's also a stark warning
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: for anyone listening. We all have people who knock on
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the doors of our lives. Most of them bring good,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: but some of them are just absolute destruction wrapped in
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: a victim's narrative and sometimes the only way to save
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: yourself is to recognize the bad omen and keep the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: door bolted shut.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Believe the red flags. If they bring chaos, don't try
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to fix them, just walk away.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: That's where we are going to wrap up this deep dive.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: It is an incredibly heavy case, but a vital one
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to understand. Pay attention to who you let into your
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: inner circle, trust your instincts, and keep yourself safe out there.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: We will catch you on the next one.