A judicial source and Al-Jadeed TV channel said on Thursday that a Lebanese military court has indicted prominent Christian politician Samir Geagea in connection with the bloody clashes that took place in Beirut last October, in a move that might inflame political tension two months before the elections.
The official said the Lebanese Forces Party who leads jage The accusation once morest Geagea is politicized, and the investigation into the violence has been politicized since the beginning.
Judge Fadi Akiki told Al-Jadeed TV that he indicted Geagea two days ago in light of new data related to the Tayouneh events, in reference to the bloodiest violence in Beirut in nearly ten years. Archyde.com was not immediately able to reach Akiki for comment.
Seven people, all supporters of the Shi’ite group Hezbollah and Amal, were killed on 14 October near an area that had previously seen clashes during the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war.
Muhannad Hajj Ali of the Carnegie Middle East Center said any attempt to arrest Geagea would likely be resisted by his party, which might spark unrest just two months before the parliamentary elections.
وستُدعي jage He attended a hearing at the Military Intelligence headquarters last October regarding the violence, but he did not attend.
The violence began on October 14 when people began gathering to participate in a protest called by Hezbollah once morest the investigative judge in Beirut port explosion which took place in 2020.
The Iranian-backed Shiite armed group accused the Lebanese Forces Party of ambushed the protesters and plotting to kill them in an attempt to drag the country into civil war.
However, Geagea is one of the most vocal critics of Hezbollah and has good relations with Saudi ArabiaHe strongly denied this and further rejected Hezbollah’s accusations that the party had reconstituted its powerful armed arm, which was a party to the Lebanese civil war.
Geagea said that the unrest began when supporters of the two Shiite parties entered the neighborhood of Ain al-Rommana, which is inhabited by a Christian majority, where they damaged cars and wounded four residents before shooting occurred in the area.