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Clashes intensified between the army and protesters from revolutionary groups, who were heading from the Palace of Justice towards the road to the Baabda Palace. The army fired into the air in response to him throwing stones and bottles of water, and press correspondents recorded the arrests of the protesters.
The surrounding palaces of Baabda and Al-Adl witnessed two demonstrations that clashed with slogans and targets. The groups of the revolution met in Adliya, raising slogans denouncing the pact and calling for the overthrow of the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, and charging him with the consequences of the failure and cessation that caused the explosion of the port, and the fact that was not revealed until now. On the other hand, the supporters of the “Free Patriotic Movement” gathered in Baabda and carried slogans in defense of the pact, and spoke of a “conspiracy against legitimacy”, and then they advanced towards the point where they were supposed to gather. supporters of the revolution who had left the Palace of Justice, walking in the direction of MacDonalds. The Republican presence has strengthened its elements and the Internal Security Forces have also incurred the costs of launching tear gas canisters.
A security source on the ground told Al-Nahar that “measures are being taken to prevent the two demonstrations from clashing.”
MP Hikmat Deeb told Al-Nahar that “things have gone beyond their limits and agendas are being implemented to undermine legitimacy in Baabda, and today’s message is the message of defending legitimacy.” In response to a question about President Aoun’s accusation of responsibility for the port explosion since the rally at the Palace of Justice, he replied that “the president of the republic is only accountable for high treason, not for tea and” he knew. We will not listen to them, and the president of the republic is the last to question an explosion. The port. “
Several deputies and officials of the Movement participated in the movement.
For his part, Representative Alla Aoun told Al-Nahar that “the movement will assume its responsibility in the parliamentary elections.”
For their part, the activists said that they are not responsible for the confrontation with the army and that they do not adopt stones to shoot at it, demanding that the latter preserve freedom of protest and expression and not use force.
Later, the protesters suspended the gallows, on the way to the Republican Palace, demanding accountability from “the corrupt, thieves and those responsible for the crime of August 4.”
They also raised slogans denouncing the decline in investigations into the port explosion, in a scene that summed up the anger on the street, calling for the resignation of President Michel Aoun and accountability.
