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The Supreme Judicial Council of Lebanon stated, in a statement reviewing the course and procedures of the investigations, that judicial investigator (examining magistrate) Fadi Sawan is investigating the causes and circumstances of the Beirut seaport explosion, as quickly as possible, but without haste, with the aim of achieving the desired results and determining responsibilities towards the perpetrators.
The council indicated that the forensic investigator had previously sent a memorandum on November 24 to the Chamber of Deputies in which he stated that the preliminary inquiries he made indicate that there are serious suspicions related to some government officials, but received a response from Parliament two days after sending the memorandum in the sense that no suspicions were found in this regard. To the persons mentioned according to the documents sent.
He said that the decision of the investigating judge to question several people as defendants, including the acting Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, 3 former ministers, one of the heads of the security services and a navy agent, comes in light of what is revealed by the investigations and interrogations it carries out
The council added that the judicial investigator sent a request for international cooperation to the United Nations, with the aim of depositing the aerial photos taken by satellites of any country within the UN organization on the date of the explosion, or any information about an air or maritime warfare movement monitored by the international peacekeepers operating in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL, through its military radars, in Lebanese air and maritime space on the aforementioned day.
He pointed out that in parallel with the ongoing investigation in Lebanon, a French judicial investigation is being carried out, which is at a similar stage to it, in addition to there being contact with the French judicial authorities in this regard.
Hours earlier, the judicial investigator, Fadi Sawan, had formally charged Prime Minister Hassan Diab, former Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil and former Labor Ministers Ghazi Zaiter and Youssef Fenianos, of committing crimes of negligence and negligence and causing death and injury. hundreds of people, and decided to hold sessions. Investigation starting next Monday to be questioned.
