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Beirut – A Lebanese official warned Thursday of the presence of containers containing explosive materials in the port of Beirut.
The Lebanese newspaper “Al-Gomhoria” quoted the Director General of the Beirut Port Administration and Investment Base, Al-Qaisi, as saying, during a press conference today, that “there are containers containing explosive materials in the port. We deliver books. interested parties and asked customs to take them away. “
Al-Qaisi called on customs to “implement the law and force shipping companies to re-ship the containers,” and said that next Monday it will file a lawsuit against an unknown right in the matter of containers containing explosive materials in the port. .
Al-Qaisi pointed to the problem that merchants cannot store wheat and food products, saying: “So we adopted the direct delivery method from the ship to the truck and then to the mill or storage location outside of Beirut.”
An explosion hit the port of Beirut on August 4, causing tremendous damage to and around the port and the streets of the capital, killing more than 182 people and injuring 6,000.
The Lebanese government confirmed that the explosion was caused by the fire of some 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, which is used in the manufacture of fertilizers and pumps in the port of Beirut, after it was stored after the cargo was unloaded from a Russian ship called “Roussos” bound for Mozambique.
Lebanese authorities arrested several senior officials at the port as part of an investigation into the storage conditions of the deadly cargo.
All the official statements referred to the premise of negligence, which is a magic formula to cover up the most serious problem that pushed not the port of Beirut but the whole of Lebanon to collapse and did not leave him room to recover from his injuries.
The competent Lebanese authorities did not provide a convincing explanation for the existence of a dangerous substance such as ammonium nitrate, which extremist groups used in the past to make bombs, saying only that it was a confiscated container.
Confiscation inevitably requires strict procedures to deal with such material and determine its owner or importer, how it entered Beirut, why it was in a strategic location for years, and why it was not previously announced, and was actually stored and confiscated during years, or recently entered the port.
The explosion also led to the resignation of the Hassan Diab government and the country’s entry into political disputes between parties and currents, which ended up giving Mustafa Adib confidence to assume a government in a difficult economic and social situation.
