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Beirut – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”:
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon imposed life in prison on Salim Ayyash, a Hezbollah operative who participated in the assassination of martyred Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and his companions on February 14, 2005.
Chief Justice David Ray described the crimes as “serious enough to require maximum punishment.” He emphasized that “the Trial Chamber considers that the maximum penalty for each of the five crimes, which is life imprisonment, must be imposed simultaneously.”
Ayyash, 57, was convicted last August for his role in the suicide bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others, and is still hidden from view, and Hezbollah is refusing to hand him over to justice, along with other defendants.
As of Friday afternoon, Hezbollah had not issued any comment on the ruling against Ayyash. However, he commented on the decision of the judicial investigator in the Beirut port bombing crime, Fadi Sawan, to prosecute the interim prime minister, Hassan Diab, and the three former ministers Ghazi Zuaiter, Ali Hassan Khalil and Youssef Fenianous, and issued a statement in which he confirmed: The harshest penalties are against them.
He stressed that “the need for the investigation not to get lost in the labyrinth of administrative procedures, routine complications and legal problems, so that the evidence disappears, the criminals are absent and the truth is lost, and unreliable suspicions surface, unfounded accusations and incorrect allegations, so the investigation is framed between the jungles of politics, street games and the clamor of the media at the cost of Truth, justice, law and the blood of martyrs ”, showing that all the measures taken by the investigating judge are far from the policy and purpose, in accordance with the provisions of the constitution, and are not subject to jurisprudence, interpretation or interpretation, and that the prosecution is carried out on logical and legal bases, and this is what is not we find in the procedures. The latter, therefore, we categorically reject the absence of uniform standards, which led to what we believe has been a political objective of people and ignoring others without a proper balance, bringing suspicion of crime to people and excluding others without a fair measure.
Bahaa Hariri demanded the arrest of the murderer … and Hamadeh says: “Ayyash is not alone in the plans and the dawn.”
Along the lines of the Hariri family, Sheikh Bahaa Hariri tweeted on his Twitter account, saying: “ After the International Court ruling on the murder of the father of the martyr Rafik Hariri, we demand that the Lebanese state arrest the murderer Salim Ayyash to achieve justice and avoid the state more international isolation and responsibility that does not exclude anyone. “.
In turn, the resigned deputy Marwan Hamadeh pointed out that the issuance of the verdict against Ayyash “coincided with the time difference with the anniversary of the murder of Gebran Tueni, and the memory of the murder coincided with the fourth session prior to the trial for the murder of George Hawi and the target of Elias Al-Marwan and Marwan Hamadeh “. He explained in a statement: “It must be recognized that the continuation of the trial is not intended to inflict additional punishment on Salim Ayyash, but to keep the lights on the intellectual authors of the series of crimes that pointed to the second independence uprising and their symbols.” .
He said: “The punishment extends beyond Ayyash, and the punishment is greater than Ayyash. Salim Ayyash is not the only one who decided, planned, mobilized, recruited, bought, installed, monitored, prepared, blew and murdered. Salim Ayyash is not the only one who incited Rafik Hariri and the martyrs of the Cedar Revolution, one by one, and thus decided to abolish the symbols, kill militants, remove activists, and evacuate the political, security, and political arenas. journalistic, judicial and partisan in Lebanon after 2005. Salim Ayyash is not the only one who weaves the conspiracy and completes the coordination between Tehran and Damascus, terrorist hideouts, intelligence basements, TNT and C4 stores, bought cars and trucks, organized lines telephone calls, set up murder teams and recruited the wrong people to push them to commit suicide called martyrdom. “
Jumblatt and Khazen
For his part, the president of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, decided to tweet about the latest news related to the issue of the Beirut port explosion. “. He added: “The port explosion is a humanitarian crime against Beirut and all of Lebanon. Remember the International Tribunal and remember that we are requesting an international investigation committee on the port explosion. Except and appeared. “
Likewise, the parliamentarian Farid Haykal El-Khazen, close to the “Marada Movement”, stopped when President Michel Aoun did not include any complaint and asked: “Where did the President of the Supreme Defense Council and the Commander of the Forces Armed for responsibility for port crime? ”.
