One month after the Beirut attack and a qualitative leap in the investigations, listening to Diab and the ministers

Beirut – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”:

With sadness and agony, the Lebanese observed a minute’s silence at 6:00 p.m. and 7 minutes after a full month had elapsed after the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut, which caused extensive damage in Beirut, causing hundreds of victims and thousands of wounded, and those who paused prayed in front of the expat’s statue to heal the wounded, to the sound of the church bells and the lifting of the church bells. The call to prayer in the mosques and the cessation of traffic in the port.

The investigations registered a qualitative leap, since the judicial investigator on the subject of the explosion, Judge Fadi Sawan, listened to the acting Prime Minister Hassan Diab, and asked him to clarify the reasons that led him to withdraw from the inspection tour in the port to verify ammonium nitrate materials, and who informed you that these materials are not hazardous and why. He did not instruct the security services to deal with the matter after he and the President of the Republic were informed of the danger of these materials.

After listening to Diab, it is presumed that the judicial investigator will soon listen to the Ministers of Works, Transportation, Interior and Justice who received warnings and books and did not act or stopped addressing the matter. The number of detainees so far in the case has reached about 25 people, including the Director General of Land and Maritime Transport, Abdul Hafiz al-Qaisi, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Port, Hassan Quraitem, and the Director General of Customs, Badri Daher, and four Syrian officers and three workers who were in charge of welding the hole hours before the explosion.

In the absence of new political developments at the level of government formation, the solidarity round of the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, appeared in the affected areas, listening to the people and their suffering, and raised prayers with them to alleviate pain, highlighting that “the Holy See attaches great importance to Lebanon”, considering that “Lebanon is not alone and there is international support for the reconstruction of Beirut after the explosion.” He added: “As Pope John Paul II said,” Lebanon is a mission “and Lebanon must preserve its components.

Parolin had visited Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who thanked the Pope for his initiative to call an international day of prayer and fasting for Lebanon. Aoun told Cardinal Parolin: “One month after the port disaster, we remember the martyrs who fell, the wounded who were injured and the people who lost their livelihood. We affirm that justice will apply to all those responsible or negligent, and that is the right of the Lebanese united by the disaster and reunited by the pain.

The Vatican Secretary visited Bkerke, where he met with the Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi in the presence of the Pontifical Ambassador Mons. Joseph Spitari, the Syrian Catholic Patriarch Mar Ignatius Joseph III Yunan, the Roman Catholic Patriarch Joseph I Al-Absi , and the Armenian Catholic Patriarch Gregoire a group of XX priests. Parolin said: “We have taken note of the Patriarch’s proposal on neutrality and will study it in depth, and I believe that the heart of the matter is to keep Lebanon away from tensions in the region and isolated from external conflicts and that Lebanon preserve your identity and your role. “

A problem in Harissa

In a recent context, as the Vatican Secretary of State presided over prayer at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa on Thursday night, supporters of Lebanese President Michel Aoun attempted to pick up a photo of him in church, and it occurred a problem with the participants in the prayer, including the priests, and they refused to lift any image of Aoun, and accused the President of the Republic. To the papal delegate who hears that he is “Iranian, not Lebanese.”