Sawan Calls on Parliament to Prosecute Ministers for Beirut Port Bombing



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Informed judicial sources revealed to Kuwaiti Al-Anbaa that the judicial investigator in the Beirut port bombing case, Fadi Sawan, sent a letter to Parliament informing it that the investigations he had carried out in this file included current ministers Previously, “It was suspected about the failure of these ministers in not addressing the presence of ammonium nitrate in the port and not treating it responsibly despite its danger.”

Judge Sawan asked Parliament to carry out investigations with the labor ministers: Michel Najjar (in the interim government), Youssef Fenianos, Ghazi Al-Aridi and Ghazi Zaiter, and the current Minister of Finance, Ghazi Wazna. And former Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, current Justice Minister Marie Claude Najm, and former Justice Ministers Ashraf Rifi, Salim Jreissati and Albert Sarhan, considering that the prosecution of ministers is exclusively entrusted to the Supreme Council for the trial of presidents and ministers , noting that each of these ministers was aware of the presence of ammonia in the port, either through written correspondence they received from the port administration or through reports from the security services present at the port, and did not make decisive decisions about.
Sawan’s book addressed to the Lebanese Parliament comes after a review prepared by the General Prosecutor for Cassation, in which it concluded that prosecuting ministers for violations or possible crimes committed during their tenure in ministerial functions is the competence of the Supreme Council for the Prosecution of Presidents and Ministers, on the basis of cases of A precedent in which the Judiciary stopped the trial of ministers for lack of competence.



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