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Beirut – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”: While the Judiciary investigates to uncover the crime of the Beirut port explosion on August 4, directing the arrows of the prosecution against government officials for negligence and negligence, in relation to the arrival of the ammonium nitrate ship, its emptying and storage for seven years in pavilion No. 12 that exploded There are those who are working to erase evidence, filter witnesses and cut threads that could lead to the revelation of who carried the 2750 tons of nitrate , who covered it and who used to benefit from it. Weeks ago, the retired customs colonel, Munir Abu Rajeli, was found dead inside his home in the Jbeil district (Mount Lebanon), after being hit with a pointed object on the head a few weeks after being called in to investigate the port explosion.
The interior minister describes the kahla crime as “the organization” and says it “will not happen”
So far, the security services have not announced the course of the investigations, and they may not be made public, as there are great doubts that link the murder of Abu Rajeli to the mysteries of what was happening in this vital facility. Years earlier, retired Col. Joseph Skaf fell in March 2016 on a slope near his home, leading a coroner to blame his death on an accident due to a slip on his leg, while another coroner deemed him a deliberate act. The case was closed at the time, but returned to the spotlight after the August 4 disaster and the conversation about ammonium nitrate.
Concern, confusion and questions about the nature of the crime that the Christian town of Kahla witnessed in the district of Aley (Mount Lebanon) and that targeted a military cameraman, Joseph Bejjani, who is also an employee of the company, is growing. telecommunications company “Alpha”. The surveillance camera near the victim’s home recorded the murder incident, as the video showed two armed men advancing toward his car, from the side of the driver’s seat, after he got into it, so that one of them opened the door and fired deadly bullets in his direction from zero distance, and grabbed his cell phone before closing the vehicle door and fled. And his assistant fled the scene.
The Interior Minister of the interim government, Brigadier General Mohamed Fahmy, described the crime as “the organization” and during his meeting with the mayor of Kahala, Jan Bejani said: “The organized crime of kahla will not happen.” A security expert told Al-Quds Al-Arabi that such a crime needs careful supervision and preparation for at least two months. It is executed with great craftsmanship and precision. The truth is that this crime is not an ordinary crime, and its objective is not theft or the settlement of private accounts. In analysis, it is a kind of “evidence erasure”. The Information Division of the Internal Security Forces is working on an investigation to uncover the circumstances of this security incident that shook the Lebanese and rekindled the obsession that the country will return to the era of murders and murders.
Among the monitoring circles, there are doubts about whether there is a link between the murder of Bejani – who took place yesterday in his town – and the port investigations. Some information spoke that the young photographer worked with the American and French investigation teams in documenting evidence in the port explosion, raising questions about whether there is a mystery related to that, his work in communications, or what! it has with the establishment and the military apparatus!
The London-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated that Bejjani works for a local telecommunications company and worked for about 15 years in the field of military photography with the army before resigning later this year, when he wrote on his Facebook account: “After 15 years of photography, and focusing on military photography in Lebanon and abroad, especially to show the image of progress, strength and the image of civilization of the Lebanese army abroad Today I decided to withdraw from military photography in Lebanon. You ask them to photograph them, but only to visualize them with a sense of terror. See what they have healed of us, let us represent the following. “
There was a silent state of wariness in the way the political forces dealt with these crimes, as voices faded to the point of suspicion, while instincts, bigotry and racism moved into previous incidents. Some attribute it to the state of anxiety in the situation for the internal economic-financial collapse, and the period of political waiting that has become a captive of developments in the region and relations between the United States and Iran, but others do not rule out for the country to witness a phase similar to the assassinations that followed the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in the past. The purpose is to empty the investigation file.
A clear position emerged for the “Lebanese Forces” and a clear position for the “Lebanese Forces” that announced that “they are following, moment by moment, the results of the investigations into the heinous crime that took place in high and cold blood. criminal professionalism, which is a serious abuse suffered by the entire Lebanese society due to its dangerousness and the anxiety it generated in the opinion “. The general opinion is that no one is safe from his life in the presence of organized death squads who execute people when they wish ”. The request of the security forces concerned to “discover the circumstances (…) to allay the anxiety of the people who felt exposed and threatened with their life, security, future and stability.
The “Strong Lebanon” bloc headed by deputy Gebran Bassil considered that “this crime, with its circumstances and style, is closer to organized crime, calling on the security and judicial agencies to expedite the necessary investigations of this crime in a way that reassures citizens overwhelmed by concerns about the recurrence of crimes spread in more than one region, which are being linked. Some of them with the crime of the port explosion.
