The investigation threatens to eliminate the port! (News)

The Al-Akhbar newspaper reported that the gravity of Judge Fadi Sawan’s decision to prosecute the administration and investment of the port of Beirut as a legal person criminally responsible for the crime of the port of Beirut lies in its legal, economic and political repercussions that eliminate what that the port explosion did not eliminate. This decision may lead to the transfer of the port to a compensation fund, instead of the insurance and reinsurance companies.

According to Al-Akhbar, the application of the text of article 210 of the Penal Code to the management and investment of the port of Beirut and its prosecution as a legal entity does not comply with its hybrid legal nature, in the absence of a legal text that defines the status of the port after transfer to state supervision. It is like a public institution that runs a public service and has no independent legal personality from the Lebanese state.
According to legal experts, it is not possible to claim the management and investment of the port of Beirut as a legal person isolated from the persecution against the Lebanese state, unless it is intended to protect those responsible for the crime of the port by transferring the obligation of personal compensation to the affected persons to the Lebanese state and from public funds and not from its private funds.