Lebanon’s campaigning judge Tarek Bitar, who is investigating the deadly 2020 Beirut port blast, charged the prosecutor general and seven others with probable intent to murder and other crimes, a judicial official said Tuesday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon –
Authorities said the mega-explosion was caused by a fire in a portside warehouse where a vast stockpile of the industrial chemical ammonium nitrate had been haphazardly stored for years. Bitar’s probe has met with strong opposition from government figures and the powerful Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement, which has accused him of political bias.
Bitar last week met with two French magistrates, who came to Beirut as part of the country’s own investigation into the explosion that killed and injured French nationals.Bitar had decided Monday, to widespread surprise, to resume his probe into the disaster, despite the strong political pressure against him.
According to the judicial official, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, Oueidat had in 2019 overseen a security services investigation into cracks in the warehouse where the ammonium nitrate was stored.
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