Nizar Saghieh: "In Lebanon, power is leading an assault on justice"

Two years later, no responsibility has yet been established in the case of the explosion at the port of Beirut.

Nizar Saghieh, founder of an observatory of the Lebanese judicial system, decrypts the obstacles that prevent the progress of the investigation.

LE FIGARO.

- Where is the investigation on the explosion at the port of Beirut?

NIZAR SAGHIEH.

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It has been at a standstill for more than seven months, since Tarek Bitar, the investigating judge in charge of the case, summoned five former ministers and senior officials, triggering a salvo of procedures intended to divest him of this file.

Technically, the freezing of the procedure is due to legal and judicial problems: a recusal procedure automatically leads to the suspension of the investigation, curbing de facto any capacity for action of the judge.

But the activation of these delaying maneuvers is the fruit of the enslavement of justice by the undemocratic political regime that governs Lebanon.

What are the channels through which...

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