(ANSAMed) - BEIRUT, JANUARY 19 - A few hundred people took part this morning in Beirut in a demonstration organized by the families of the victims of the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut which killed about 250 people on August 4, 2020 and created great destruction in the Lebanese capital.
Today's sit-in was scheduled at the same time as the 11th parliamentary session for the election of the President of the Republic in the seat of the Lebanese parliament.
The demonstrators, gathered in the streets near the headquarters of the national assembly, have once again clamored for the resumption of the work of the Lebanese investigation into the responsibility for the explosion, in August 2020, of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate and in which they are more than 6,000 people were injured, many of whom were maimed and disfigured for life.
Some Lebanese deputies, an expression of the political protest movement that emerged at the end of 2019 with the emergence of Lebanon's financial collapse, joined the demonstrators today in expressing solidarity with their demands.
These deputies also showed pictures of the approximately 250 victims of the explosion in the chamber.
The Lebanese judicial inquiry, led by Judge TareqBitar, has effectively been at a standstill for a year and a half and is being hampered by various representatives of the Lebanese political elite.
This is accused by several quarters and at different levels of being responsible for the storage, since 2013, of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut.
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