According to a publication on the Lebanese network MTV, the FBI does not believe that it was an accident after receiving findings • In the disaster, about 200 people were killed and thousands more were injured.
The FBI treats the Beirut disaster as a deliberate sabotage, not as an accident as treated in Lebanon.
This is what the Lebanese MTV network announced tonight (Friday).
Documentation of the disaster in the port of Beirut
According to a Lebanese source, the FBI concluded that this was not an accident, but a deliberate sabotage - based on preliminary findings obtained by US investigators.
According to the investigation, it is possible that there was an explosive that was activated - and it was the source of the ammonium nitrate explosion that destroyed large parts of Beirut.
Lebanese continue for the time being to refrain from taking serious account of Hezbollah's involvement in the import of more than 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate, the substance that led to the destruction of the Lebanese capital.
They arrested most senior officials and the Beirut port management, but did not touch on the involvement of the Shiite terrorist organization in the incident.
This, when on Sunday it will be two months since the explosion that led to the deaths of about 200 people, 6,500 injured, and a few more missing that it is not clear if they will be found at all in the future.
Sources to MTV: The FBI investigation considers the #Beirut port explosion a deliberate crime and not an accident
- MTV English News (@MTVEnglishNews) October 2, 2020
As part of further investigations, the Lebanese prosecution passed arrest warrants to Interpol against the Russian owner and captain of the ship carrying the nitrous oxide that caused the enormous damage.
The two are captain Boris Prokushev, who led the ship MV Rossos from Turkey to Beirut in 2013, as well as Igor Grechushkin, a Russian businessman who lives in Cyprus and purchased the ship from Kharlambus Manoli of Cyprus in 2012.