BEIRUT, Aug 4 — Lebanon today marks four years since a catastrophic explosion at Beirut’s port killed more than 220 people, with fears of all-out war between Israel and...
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Nobody has been held responsible for the August 4, 2020 disaster — one of history’s biggest non-nuclear explosions — which also injured at least 6,500 people and devastated swathes of the capital. In December 2020, lead investigator Fadi Sawan charged former prime minister Hassan Diab and three ex-ministers with negligence, but as political pressure mounted, he was removed from the case.
But in January last year, he resumed investigations, charging eight new suspects including high-level security officials and Lebanon’s top prosecutor, who in turn charged Bitar with “usurping power” and ordered the release of detainees in the case.A judicial official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Bitar would “resume his proceedings, starting next week” and intends to finish “the investigation and issue his indictment decision... by the end of the year”.
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