The Court of Cassation begins to notify the litigating parties of the request to transfer the explosion file of the port of Sawan

The Criminal Court of Cassation chaired by Judge Jamal Al-Hajjar initiated the procedures to notify the litigants in the case of the Beirut port explosion, the content of the memorandum presented by the two former ministers, Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zuaiter, in the who requested the transfer of the case from the custody of the judicial investigator, Judge Fadi Sawan, “on legitimate suspicion” Another judge, and invited them to present their responses to this memorandum.

The notification procedures began with Judge Sawan, who began to prepare his answer to the memorandum, for which he hastened to temporarily suspend the investigation in the file pending the decision of the Court of Cassation, and the Public Ministry was informed of Cassation of the matter, provided that the other parties, including the Bar Association, begin to inform their agency of the affected plaintiffs early next week. And the families of the victims and all the accused, including those arrested and not, and Judge Al-Hajjar asked Sawan to provide the numbers, addresses and names of their legal representatives.

The nature of the discriminatory position of the prosecution on this memorandum is not yet known, especially because the public prosecutor, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, has resigned from examining this file and commenting on any review in this regard, due to his kinship with the deputy Zuaiter, and the discriminatory prosecutor, Judge Imad Qablan, did the same, because the latter has dedicated himself to investigating the international judicial assignments received by the Public Ministry of Cassation in recent days, and his concern about investigating the files related to the orders issued by Interpol International, so that Qabalan can send the results of these investigations to the countries concerned at the specified times, while the public cassation lawyer is likely to respond to Khalil’s memo. Zaiter, and allow the Court of Cassation to make the decision it deems appropriate, which meets the interest of the investigation and takes into account the interests of the victims affected by the port explosion.