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When the two former ministers, Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zuaiter, confirmed that the judicial investigator in the port explosion, Judge Fadi Sawan, would not resign and would not stop his upward path in his search for former Minister Yusef Fenianos and Acting Prime Minister Hassan Diab, decided to deal a painful blow to Judge Sawan first and, second, to the judicial process of the file. A painful blow that the two deputies of the Amal Movement benefited from their legal training as lawyers, to direct it through the Criminal Cassation Court that decides on legitimate suspicion requests. Zuaiter and Hassan Khalil submitted a transfer request through their lawyer, Samer Hassan Al-Hajj, to request that the port complaint be transferred from Judge Fadi Sawan to another judge, temporarily hampering the progress of the investigations. Why? Because Sawan, as soon as the Court of Cassation informs him of the request for transfer of the complaint, he must stop his investigations in the file until the Court of Criminal Cassation decides the request, negative or positive. It is a painful blow and not a judge, because Judge Sawan will be able to continue his investigations if the Court of Criminal Cassation rejects the request to transfer the complaint to another judge, but if the Court of Cassation accepts the request of Zuaiter and Hassan Khalil and decides transfer the file to another judge, here the file becomes a real dilemma pointed out by prominent legal sources, adds: “In a case like this, a forensic investigator appointed by the Council of Ministers is investigating the file. The complaint cannot be transferred to any other criminal judge unless the cabinet decides to appoint a new judicial investigator in place of Sawan, and this is almost impossible in the current situation, firstly because the Council of Ministers does not meet during the interim period, and secondly place because the memory of the Lebanese still preserves the acute political dispute between the parties over the appointment of a judicial investigator in the port crime, and how Mo Justice Minister Marie Claude Najm suggested the name of Judge Samer Yunus, then the council rejected it. The Supreme Court until the matter ended with an agreement on the name of Fadi Sawan.
What happened in Adliya is that the Criminal Court of Cassation tried to inform Judge Sawan of the request to transfer the complaint filed by the two ministers Zuaiter and Hassan Khalil. However, the notification did not happen because Sawan had left his office shortly after hearing as a witness the statement of the former Army Chief of Staff, Major General. Walid Salman with the ammonium nitrate file and after the interrogation of Zuaiter and Hassan Khalil it was postponed to next January 4 for not completing the notifications and for the refusal of the two to appear before Sawan for their constitutional conviction that presidents and ministers they are being tried before the Supreme Council of Presidents and Ministers, that is, in Parliament. .
Tomorrow, Sawan is supposed to notify the request to transfer the complaint to the Court of Cassation, and if that happened early, that means that all the sessions listed in the aforementioned judge’s agenda will be stopped, from the confrontation scheduled for today between the Director General of State Security, Major General Tony Saliba and Major Joseph Al-Naddaf until Listening to the former Minister of Works Youssef Fenianous, until Hassan Diab’s session, which will not take place due to the latter’s rejection. Then the investigations enter a tunnel, and we do not know how he will get out of it if he returns and managed to get out, of course, and the Court of Cassation that resolved such applications without a president after the retirement of its president, Judge Joseph Samah.
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