The leader of the Lebanese Forces party, Samir Geagea, said, on Saturday, that judicial decisions issued regarding the party in recent times are in violation of the law.
In a press conference, two days following a military court indicted him in connection with the bloody clashes that took place in Beirut in October, Geagea said that the judicial decisions were “just a desperate failed attempt to tarnish the image of the Lebanese Forces (party)”.
And on Thursday, a military court indicted Geagea, a prominent Christian politician, in connection with the bloody clashes that took place in Tayouneh (Beirut), in a move that might inflame political tension two months before the elections.
An official in the forces responded Thursday, saying that the accusation once morest Geagea was politicized, and that the investigation into the violence was also politicized from the start.
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.
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 Lebanese Civil War which took place between 1975 and 1990.
Supporters of the Amal movement and Hezbollah had gathered in the Tayouneh area in a protest called by Hezbollah and the Amal movement once morest Tariq Bitar, the investigative judge in the Beirut port explosion that occurred in 2020.
