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The judicial investigator in the case of the bomb attack in the port of Beirut, Fadi Sawan, charged yesterday, Thursday, the interim prime minister, Hassan Diab, and Ali Hassan Khalil, former minister of finance, and Ghazi Zuaiter and Youssef Fenianos, former minister of Public Works and Transportation, on charges of “negligence, negligence and causing death” and injuring hundreds of people. It is an important judicial and political advance in a major crime that, on August 4, caused the death of more than two hundred people and injured more than 6,500 more, and caused massive damage to the port and several neighborhoods of the capital, and it displaced tens of thousands of families from their homes that were damaged or destroyed.
After the accusation, which occurred after verifying that the aforementioned persons had received “several written communications warning them not to postpone the maintenance of ammonium nitrate” and “their failure to take the necessary measures to prevent the devastating explosion”, the A judicial investigator will summon Diab, Khalil, Zuaiter and Fanyanos to question them as defendants, after the arrest of 25 at least one of the senior officials responsible for port administration and security.
Despite the resignation of the Diab government in the context of the explosion, which is the bare minimum to claim a sense of responsibility for the disaster, the acting prime minister said he is “calm in conscience and confident in the cleanliness of his palm and in his responsible and transparent handling of the Beirut port explosion file, “considering the accusation against him that” the person goes beyond the site. ” He accused the judicial investigator of violating the constitution and “bypassing parliament.”
The latest accusation is considered a unique event by the standards of the Arab authorities. Previous incidents in which heads of state were tried (as happened in Iraq after the US invasion and as is currently happening in Sudan) or governments or ministers (as is happening now in Algeria) that follow a dangerous change in the system in which the president is dismissed OR, in it, the prime minister or ministers are victims of the system itself, or the president, king or crown prince who wants to improve his image in front of his citizens under the pretext of fighting corruption, etc. .
For the multiple reasons above, it is necessary to host this political-judicial event in Lebanon, and build on it to turn it into a legal precedent, in a country where it is difficult for anything to happen except for the network of sectarian political accounts and regional governments, which may explain, perhaps, the exception of President Michel Aoun, who A report from the General Directorate of State Security included a letter that arrived on July 20, that is, the same day that Hassan Diab arrived, and summarizes the findings of a judicial investigation by Attorney General Ghassan Awaidat that began in January and ended with the need to secure chemicals. Immediately dangerous.
This is happening at a time when the World Bank expects poverty to swallow up more than half of the Lebanese population, after the collapse of the Lebanese pound triggered inflation rates that surpassed 100 percent, as leaders of the sects are concerned about the number of ministerial seats in the promised new government, hoping to complete the looting and theft. Country and spoil it.
The Beirut port explosion revealed the corruption of the entire Lebanese ruling machinery, but, in cooperation with the spread of the Coronavirus, it managed to exhaust the popular movement against corruption and sectarianism and drive it to despair, opening the door for return. of the French “mandate” and linked the economic promises to an almost impossible change within the Lebanese political class.
