Grief and calls for accountability on the anniversary of the Beirut Port bombing

The “International Group for Lebanon” is concerned regarding the lack of progress in the judicial track

Calls to hold accountable those responsible for the Beirut port explosion escalated, on the eve of the second anniversary of the explosion that killed 224 people, according to the statistics of the victims’ families.

The Lebanese commemorate the anniversary today with sadness and anger, with marches reaching the port following its launch from three locations, to urge officials to hold the prosecution accountable, support the wounded who were injured in the explosion, and console the families of the victims.

The families of the victims stand helpless in the face of the political disputes that prevented the prosecution of the suspects responsible for the explosion, while the hands of the judiciary seem tied in light of 35 requests to stop the hand that prevented the judicial investigator, Judge Tariq Al-Bitar from pursuing his investigations, and attempts to bring an international fact-finding committee to take over the investigations into the port file failed. .

The popular movement aims to remind that the authority failed to carry out its duties, and did not hold officials accountable, and activists accuse the state of trying to obliterate the features of the disaster from memory, in light of the plan to demolish the building of the dumps, the most prominent witness to the explosion, a proposal that was retracted. Take steps to protect it.

The International Working Group for Lebanon expressed its concern regarding the lack of progress so far in the judicial process, and its members called on the Lebanese authorities to do everything in their power to remove obstacles that prevent an impartial, thorough and transparent investigation into the port explosion.

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