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Between welcome and skepticism, the reactions followed an indictment against the head of the interim government in Lebanon, Hassan Diab, in the case of the capital’s port explosion.
Four months after the terrible explosion, investigating judge Fadi Sawan indicted Diab and the former ministers on Thursday on charges of “negligence and negligence”.
On August 4, the port explosion killed more than two hundred people and injured thousands more.
It also severely damaged the port and several neighborhoods in the capital and displaced tens of thousands of families from their homes that were damaged or destroyed.
The Lebanese authorities are investigating the explosion, which was attributed to the storage of large quantities of ammonium nitrate, for years, in one of the port’s pavilions without preventive measures.
Aoun Accounting
Former Lebanese Prime Minister, MP Najib Mikati, asked: “The truth is an indivisible whole. How can we ignore what the President of the Republic (Michel Aoun) said?”
Mikati wrote on Twitter: “No double standard of justice is established, and the families of the victims of the attack in the port have the right to know the truth and hold those involved in the crime accountable.”
He continued: “How can selectivity be adopted in the prosecution and ignoring what the President of the Republic said, who had read reports that warn of the presence of hazardous materials in the port. The law is an integral whole, and not to point to specific people is a fabrication. ”
The same position was expressed by Hadi Abul-Hassan, a member of the Progressive Socialist Party, who considered that accountability should start with Aoun.
He wrote on his Twitter account saying: “As long as everyone demands to reveal the truth about the port explosion, it is not allowed for anyone to abuse his sect to avoid accountability, even if he is the prime minister who may have recently discovered that the ruler is using it to settle accounts. ”
And he considered that “true accountability must begin with the President of the Republic, because the blood of the people is more valuable than all people and places!”
Interrogation
Representative Ali Hassan Khalil commented on the prosecution’s decision in the port explosion case, tweeting: “In response to the allegations by the judicial investigator, Judge Fadi Sawan: We have always been under the roof of the law and its principles, and we trust in ourselves and in the exercise of our responsibility “.
He added: “We are surprised by the contradiction in the position of the judicial investigator in contradiction with the constitution and the law. We continue to say that I do not have any role as Minister of Finance in this case. The investigation report is authentic and we have another detailed comment for clarify all the antecedents and facts “.
In turn, the Minister of Social Affairs and Tourism of the interim government, Ramzi al-Musharrafiya, said that “holding Prime Minister Hassan Diab responsible for the explosion of the port is a disregard for the minds of the people, the judiciary and the law. “.
He added on Twitter: “Hassan Diab is not an easy encouragement, nor a failure of anyone’s mind. He is prime minister for less than 7 months. Negligence at the port is more than 7 years old.”
He believed that “holding Diab responsible for the explosion in the port is a disregard for the minds of the people, the judiciary and the law.”
On Thursday, the judicial investigator in the Beirut port bombing file, Judge Fadi Sawan, charged Ali Diab, former Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil (close to Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri) and former Public Works ministers Ghazi Zuaiter and Youssef Fenianous, on charges of “negligence, negligence, causing death and injury to hundreds of people.” .
Judge Sawan set Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week as dates for questioning them as defendants.
For his part, Diab considered, in a statement, that the prosecution has the right to point to the position of the prime minister.
It said in a statement: “The prime minister has a clear conscience and trusts his clean hand and his responsible and transparent handling of the Beirut port explosion file.”
He noted that “it is strange that this targeting exceeds the person on the site, and Hassan Diab will not allow the position of the prime minister to be targeted by any party.”
