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On Wednesday, the Lebanese parliament rejected the accusations against two deputies in the investigation of the bomb attack in the port of Beirut and requested details of the accusations.
Both the former ministers and the current deputies, Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zuaiter, refused to comply with the judicial investigator of the case of the Beirut attack, Fadi Sawan, today for the second time in a row, and announced that they had not been officially informed.
The position of the Lebanese Parliament Office, which generally includes representatives from various parliamentary blocs, comes after a meeting held under the chairmanship of the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri.
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Elie Ferzli said in a statement after the meeting, saying: “We received a letter from Judge Sawan and a decision was made not to publish it out of respect for the Lebanese judiciary, and we are eager to do their job by maximum, and we hope to arrive at the desired facts about port crime and its causes. ” .
He added: “The (Lebanese) parliament sent Judge Sawan to obtain the file containing the accusations,” and expressed regret “for addressing the parliament as if it had neglected to exercise its constitutional powers.”
Al-Ferzli stressed that “we did not find any serious or non-serious suspicions of all the aforementioned”, adding that “Parliament is committed to implementing the law in accordance with the principles of the law on trials before the Supreme Council according to the file sent by the competent judge “.
The judicial investigator, Judge Fadi Sawan, indicted Acting Prime Minister Hassan Diab, former Lebanese Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil (close to Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri) and former Minister of Public Works Ghazi Zaiter and Youssef Fenianous, for the crime of negligence and negligence and causing death and injury to hundreds of people.
Both Khalil and Zuaiter enjoy parliamentary immunity, unlike Fanyounos, who came to hear it on Tuesday but was told to postpone it to a date to be determined.
After the two MPs refused, the judge postponed the date of their questioning to January 4, according to the National Information Agency.
On the other hand, Sawan set, next Friday, a second appointment to hear the interim prime minister, Hassan Diab, after he refused to receive him at his headquarters in the government palace last Monday, according to information indicating that the Diab’s position will not change, especially since he receives broad support based on the refusal to damage the position of the presidency. government.
This comes at a time when constitutional jurisprudence differs in Lebanon regarding this crisis, while the focus is on what Sawan’s next step will be.
The law allows Sawan to issue arrest warrants against those who refrain from interrogation, which remains excluded until now for political and security reasons.
And the Interior Minister of the Lebanese interim government, Mohamed Fahmy, announced that he would not implement any arrest warrant against Diab or other officials if they refused to be questioned.
