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Beirut – “The Gulf”
The case of the dismissal of the judicial investigator interacted in the port explosion, Judge Fadi Sawan, in a judicial and popular manner, yesterday Friday, and while Sawan was informed of his official exclusion from the investigation file, the victims’ families continued. to express their anger at the sit-ins and protests in front of the Beirut Palace of Justice, amid popular and political demands for an international investigation to find out The truth lies in the explosion in the port and the cessation of attempts to cover up the crime by arresting and diluting the research file.
Alternative selection
The Supreme Judicial Council yesterday held a meeting headed by its president, Judge Suhail Abboud, to discuss the decision of the Criminal Court of Cassation, which decided to disqualify the judicial investigator, Judge Fadi Sawan, from the Beirut port explosion file, and choose an alternative judge to assume this task in agreement with the Minister of Justice in the interim government, Marie Claude Najm, who will propose the nominee for this case. The council decided to keep its sessions open until the decision was made to select the new judicial investigator and receive the file. Sawan had informed him yesterday upon his arrival at his office that the Criminal Court of Cassation decided to prevent him from hearing the case of the port explosion, after the Prosecutor, Judge Ghassan El-Khoury, referred the decision to Minister Najm and Judge Sawan . In this context, he said: “The National Civil Front”: The decision of the Court of Cassation to cease the hand of Judge Sawan came in response to a blatant political desire to assassinate the investigation into the most horrendous massacre », affirming that this The decision is a bad omen for the collapse of the State Bridge and its lifting, calling for the broadest popular participation in all the movements and sit-ins that will take place at this stage in front of the Palace of Justice and Other Regions ».
Popular movement
Each of the movements: Beirut Madinati, “Spreading”, “Li-Haqqi”, “Popular Observatory for the Fight against Corruption”, “National Alliance”, “Mada” and the “Lebanese National Bloc” party considered in a joint statement that the Court of the Cassation decision to remove Judge Sawan who tries to obstruct the investigation and erase the crime and ignore the rights and injuries of the people.
In the same context, several relatives of the victims of the port explosion blocked a series of roads in Beirut, taking photos of their children, as part of a series of movements that they promised to implement, rejecting the decision to transfer the investigation. from judge Fadi Sawan to another judge and condemning the delay and dilution in the investigation file.
In addition, the head of the “Lebanese Forces” party, Samir Geagea, asked President Aoun and Acting Prime Minister Hassan Diab to send an immediate request to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to form an international report. Determination committee to reveal the circumstances of the port crime, indicating that the “strong republic” bloc signed a petition and directed it to the Secretary General of the United Nations for the same purpose.
