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Sawan’s book addressed to the Lebanese Parliament comes after a review prepared by the Public Ministry of Cassation, in which it considered that prosecuting ministers for violations or possible crimes committed during their ministerial functions is the competence of the Supreme Council to judge presidents and ministers, based on previous cases in which the Judiciary suspended the trial of ministers for lack of competence. .
Parliament is the seat of the Supreme Council to judge presidents and ministers.
After Lebanese authorities rejected requests for an international investigation into the blast, they opened a local investigation, which has so far led to the arrest of 25 people, including customs and port officials.
French experts and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation participated in the preliminary investigations.
Legal sources had revealed to France Press that Lebanon had received the report from the American experts, but was still awaiting the report from the French experts.
The Beirut Bar Association filed hundreds of cases with its agency for victims of the port explosion.
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On August 4, the port of Beirut witnessed a massive explosion of hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate, killing more than 200 people and injuring thousands and destroying much of the capital.
The government resigned due to the explosion, but is still in business for not forming a new government yet.
The judicial source pointed out that the judicial investigator, Judge Fadi Sawan, wrote to Parliament in which he informed him that the investigations he had carried out with current and former ministers raised certain suspicions about the responsibility of these ministers and their failure to attend to the presence of ammonium nitrate in the port.
The source confirmed that Judge Sawan asked Parliament to carry out investigations with the Minister of Works of the provisional government, Michel Najjar, and his predecessors, Youssef Fenianos, Ghazi Al-Aridi and Ghazi Zaiter, the Minister of Finance of the provisional government, Ghazi Wazna and his predecessor Ali Hassan Khalil, and the Minister of Justice in the provisional government, Marie-Claudeker. Najm and his predecessors Ashraf Rifi, Saleem Jreissati and Albert Sarhan, considering that the prosecution of ministers is exclusively entrusted to the Supreme Council to try presidents and ministers.
Sawan’s book addressed to the Lebanese Parliament comes after a review prepared by the Public Ministry of Cassation, in which it considered that prosecuting ministers for violations or possible crimes committed during their ministerial functions is the competence of the Supreme Council to judge presidents and ministers, based on previous cases in which the Judiciary suspended the trial of ministers for lack of competence. .
Parliament is the seat of the Supreme Council to judge presidents and ministers.
After Lebanese authorities rejected requests for an international investigation into the blast, they opened a local investigation, which has so far led to the arrest of 25 people, including customs and port officials.
French experts and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation participated in the preliminary investigations.
Legal sources had revealed to France Press that Lebanon had received the report from the American experts, but was still awaiting the report from the French experts.
The Beirut Bar Association filed hundreds of cases with its agency for victims of the port explosion.
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