Siniora’s statements came in a statement issued on his official website, today, Friday.
Siniora praised “the decision of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which unanimously condemned the defendants Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Hassan Habib Marei for the crime of participating and interfering in the crime of the assassination of Rafik Hariri, following it rescinded the verdict issued by the First Instance Chamber on August 18, 2020, which acquitted them.”
He said that the court’s decision “points the compass once more and reveals Hezbollah’s involvement in the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and exposes the falseness of the claims and practices of this party once morest Lebanon and the Lebanese, which makes it imperative for the party to bring the criminals to justice without any delay.”
Siniora considered that “the development comes today to prove the correctness of the position taken by Lebanon in adopting and prosecuting the criminals who stood behind this heinous crime, when it becomes clear to us every day that the Lebanese judiciary is unable to detect a number of crimes committed in Lebanon.”
He pointed out, “the blatant inability to make progress in uncovering the crime of the era, the crime of bombing the port of Beirut.”
It is noteworthy that a statement by the Office of the Prosecutor, Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunal for Lebanon, condemned yesterday, Thursday, Hassan Habib Merhi and Hussein Hassan Oneissi, for their roles in the attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005.
Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, in turn, demanded in a statement yesterday, Thursday, the Lebanese state, with all its authorities and military and security forces, to work to arrest the convicts and hand them over to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.