BEIRUT: The lawyers of the Beirut port explosion victims and the 17 arrested defendants fear the lawyers of the politicians accused of being involved in the crime would resort to the Court of Cassation after they exhausted their cases before the Court of Appeal. Tarek Bitar, the judge leading the probe, had resumed his meetings on Wednesday in his office at the Justice Palace
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By the fourth of March, seven months would have passed since the crime of the Beirut port blast which destroyed a third of the Lebanese capital. To date, the forensic investigation has revealed nothing to the public. The political class, clinging to its “immunity” has successfully interfered, reversing the investigation’s course and putting the responsibility on negligence or administrative errors. Politicians with “serious suspicions” about them after initial questioning were declared innocent! While Hezbollah, which controls the docks and hangars at the port, has decided that the technical investigation conducted by the military authorities has been finalized, and the judge has nothing to do now but announce the results and close the matter!