The investigation into the port explosion is swift but not rushed



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The Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi, received this morning in Bkerke the Minister of Justice in the interim government, Marie Claude Negm, who said after the meeting: “From this old building, and from my position as a citizen and As an official, of course I came to listen to the opinions of your patriot, and in order to respond, He included my powers to inquire about the investigation process in the port explosion file and the judicial work in general, and I presented His Excellency the way to initiate the judicial investigation from the first moment, by means of the referral to the Council of the Judiciary, which the Council of Ministers made in its decision to appoint a forensic investigator.

He added: “The investigations are progressing today, and we are excited about them, and we assure the families of the victims, the injured and all those affected that the investigation will be swift but not rushed, and I am going to shed light on one aspect of this issue. The judicial investigator awaits today the technical investigations that will be presented by teams of foreign experts from France, Great Britain and, in particular, France “. There are judicial authorizations sent abroad, so I am following this issue personally and contacted the embassies of the countries involved to expedite the investigations as much as possible, and I know that there are people in a ‘fire’ and tomorrow I will meet with the families of the Beirut Fire Brigade victims, whom I met previously, and will have a booth on the occasion. “

And he continued: “On the occasion of the first anniversary of the revolution, I appeal to the new generation and the revolution not to despair, but to work in an enlightened cultural and intellectual field, and today I personally do not see any solution if we leave our current system, which has proven its failure on the political, economic and social levels. “

He added: “I spoke with His Beatitude on this particular issue, as we did not find a solution for a real state but with a secular state, starting with a unified law of the personal state, and our teacher confirmed this issue and is one of the that compulsively advocates it, and I hope we all think holistically in this direction. “

And he said: “When I appeal to revolutionaries, what matters to me is that this revolution is not a” fascination for creation “, but goes further, because for me the revolution is intellectual and you have to be at this level. Otherwise it will be a “fear of creation” and it cannot produce, we want it to be constructive. Because we revolutionaries have to talk to everyone in this country, and that is why we must join hands, otherwise we cannot get out of this stagnation. in which we have fallen ”.

Among the visitors to the building, respectively: Jimmy Jabbour, Deputy Governor of Banque du Liban, Salim Shaheen and former Ambassador Tracy Chamoun.

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