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Beirut – Omar Habanjar
Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri ignored all his reservations and criticism of the interim prime minister, Hassan Diab, who visited him at the Grand Serail yesterday at noon, announcing his rejection of the accusation against the interim prime minister by the investigator. judicial Fadi Sawan on suspicion of responsibility for not following up on the reports that security agents raised about the danger of the port in Beirut. The ammonium nitrate that blew up the port on August 4, caused 200 casualties and 5,000 injuries, and destroyed the eastern neighborhoods of Beirut.
Diab was greeted by Hariri at the door of the Serail, who, after brief talks, declared from a hastily prepared pulpit: We reject the charge against President Diab and the constitution is clear. Heads of government are being tried before the Supreme Council to try presidents and ministers (a joint parliamentary and judicial body whose complex system makes it impossible to prosecute the president or minister without the approval of two-thirds of the members of the House of Representatives).
Hariri emphasized the right of the Lebanese people to know the truth, that is, who brought the nitrate vessel to the port of Beirut and covered it, but violating the constitution and claiming the prime minister is unacceptable, and I even expressed my absolute rejection of the clear and flagrant constitutional violation that the judge committed for the accusation against the prime minister and solidarity. With Diab and get with him.
In this context, former Defense Minister MP Elias Bou Saab said in a televised interview with journalist Marcel Ghanem: “It is necessary to know how to invite the Russian ship carrying nitrates to the port of Beirut to transport drilling equipment, at the request of the Ministry of Energy, to Jordan “.
It is known that the Minister of Energy at that time was Gebran Bassil.
It is noteworthy that in the port of Beirut three heads of government of Marwa and nitrates are stored, and they are Tamam Salam, Saad Hariri and Hassan Diab, and all of them rose up against the prosecution of Diab, and three former ministers, out of respect for the position of prime minister, and implicitly to avoid the arrival of the investigator to them.
President Hassan Diab was quick to respond to the judicial investigator’s call, accusing Judge Sawan of violating the constitution and circumventing the House of Representatives, and placing the prosecution in the category of targeting the prime minister, emphasizing that he would not allow it. , from whom it came, and who said what he had in this file and a point on The line.
Diab said, in his response, that he had a clear conscience in his handling of the explosion at the port, surprising the targeting that goes beyond the personal to the site … which suggests that he refrained from receiving the judicial investigator in his I dispatch on Monday, as is the norm when one of the heads of the republic, the council or the government is questioned.
The Supreme Council of the Judiciary supported the judicial investigator, noting that the investigation into the port explosion is being carried out thoroughly and with respect for principles, as did the head of the Beirut Bar Association, Melhem Khalaf, noting that the three accused ministers are lawyers.
In turn, President Najib Mikati said that “justice does not comply with double standards, and the relatives of the victims of the port attack have the right to know the truth and hold those involved in the crime responsible, so how can it be adopted? selectivity in prosecution and neglecting what the President of the Republic said he had read reports that warn of the presence of hazardous materials in the port, “highlighting However,” the truth is an indivisible whole and targeting specific people is not a manufacture “.
President Tammam Salam tweeted on his Twitter account, saying: The Presidency of the Council of Ministers is not breaking a stick for anyone.
The Mufti of Lebanon, Sheikh Abd al-Latif Derian, issued a statement in which he said: The impeachment against the post of prime minister is an unacceptable political target and violates the constitution and the law for the trial of former presidents and ministers. Everyone is responsible for this tragic event.
In turn, Hezbollah said: “We fully support and support the impartial and transparent judicial investigation into the horrible crime of the port explosion. All responsible parties or persons, whoever they are, must be prosecuted and prosecuted and the laws applied to them. harsher penalties and punishments, without any political objective. “
He added: “We are interested in the right of the Lebanese people to know the full truth about the crime, beginning with the arrival of the explosive materials ship in the port and the parties that own it and knowing the final destination of this shipment, and the reasons why it remained all those years in the pavilions of the port, even the causes of the explosion “.
He also highlighted his desire “that all the measures taken by the investigating judge are far from politics and purpose, in accordance with the provisions of the constitution, and are not subject to jurisprudence, interpretation or interpretation, and that the processing is carried out on logical and legal bases, and that is what we did not find in the recent proceedings, “announcing their rejection” in a way. He boycotted the absence of uniform standards, leading to what we believe has been a political attack on people, ignoring others without a balance of rights, and bringing suspicion of crime to people and excluding others without fair measure , and this unfortunately will lead to a delay in the investigation and the trial rather than reaching a final and fair court ruling.
The former Minister of Works Ghazi Zuaiter said at a press conference that as Minister of Works, he was not aware of the materials in the port and the entrance of the ship, because the Minister of Works did not know, and he knew when he received a letter from the Russian embassy asking about the ship and the crew on it, and I transferred the book to him. To the competent authorities, and I did not evade responsibility, and the matter belongs to the Judiciary and to constitutional principles, and they told you that you say you have no knowledge of the ship’s cargo, knowing that your son is a lawyer at Baroudi Law Firm, the ship’s agent, for which he confirmed that he did not know, and said that the presence of his son as a trained lawyer in Baroudi’s office Neither he nor I should have known about the matter, and Zaaiter denounced the judicial investigator, accusing him of having committed a violation of the constitution.
The “consultative meeting” met with a Sunni with Diab and saw the decision to prosecute him for the crime of negligence and negligence as a suspicious decision tinged with levity and improvisation, and called for everyone to be held accountable without red lines and without selectivity or malice. . .
And at the consultative meeting, Interim Government Social Affairs Minister Ramzi Musharrafieh, affiliated with MP Talal Arslan, expressed solidarity with his prime minister, saying: Hassan Diab is not easy to lift, nor is he a mistake for anyone. So did the Interior Minister, Brigadier General Mohamed Fahmy, who said: “President Diab has had him in the palace since yesterday afternoon.”
Former MP Faris Saeed tweeted in support of the court investigator’s move, hoping it would complete his favor and also summoned President Michel Aoun.
However, the Al-Diyar newspaper, near Baabda, said that the president of the republic could not be tried due to his special status and could only be tried before the parliament.
President Aoun had admitted receiving a report on the presence of dangerous nitrates in the port of Beirut and referring it to the Supreme Defense Council, saying that it is not his authority to follow up on executive matters.
Political sources, following Al-Anbaa, say that the investigating judge, Fadi Sawan, insists on discovering the truth and will not exclude anyone.
In the law, if any person named is notified to the investigating judge and does not attend despite his notification, he faces the issuance of an arrest warrant in absentia against him, noting that President Diab and the three ministers (Ghazi Zuaiter, Youssef Fenianos and Ali Hassan Khalil) did not personally receive the invitation to the investigation scheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Coming.
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