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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Lebanese investigative authorities accused Acting Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers of “the crime of negligence, negligence and causing the death and injury of hundreds of people” in the Beirut port explosion .
The official Lebanese news agency said Thursday that the judicial investigator in the Beirut port bombing file, Judge Fadi Sawan, indicted interim Prime Minister Hassan Diab, former Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, and former works ministers. Ghazi Zuaiter and Youssef Fenianous, for the crime of negligence and negligence. Causing the death and injury of hundreds of people.
The investigating judge has set Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week as dates to question them as defendants, provided that the two go to the government offices to question the head of the interim government, as stipulated in the Criminal Procedure Code, after informing him of the content of the accusation, while the ministers are questioned in his palace office. Justice.
On August 4, 2020, more than 200 people were killed and more than 6,000 injured, while some 300,000 people were displaced by the explosion in and around Beirut port, after large amounts of stored ammonium nitrate caught fire. in one of the port depots.
