The battle of Hezbollah and the judge of the Beirut explosion continues. What is the fate of Bitar?

Hezbollah was dissatisfied with the threats made by the party Liaison and Coordination Unit official, Wafiq Safa, to eradicate the Beirut Port Explosion Crime Investigator, Judge Tariq Al-Bitar, accusing him of being politicized and of act with discretion “, according to its leader, Hassan Nasrallah:” Security and stability or stop the judicial investigator from investigating “.

judicial revolt

However, it appears that the overthrow of the judicial investigator, Tariq Al-Bitar, is not a picnic, especially as he is faced with a “judicial riot” in to which the Court of Cassation has been a spearhead by responding to three dismissal cases presented by the ministers (allies of Hezbollah) accused of the attack on the port of 4 August, which caused the death of over 210 victims and thousands of injured.

The main battle of Hezbollah

Former Lebanese ambassador, Hisham Hamdan, told Al Arabiya.net: “Hezbollah believes that Judge Tariq Al-Bitar has become its main battle, and therefore it cannot be reversed, and if it is not removed, it means that it has failed and this will be a major blow to it.”

He also pointed out that this dossier is no longer a judicial and judicial matter, but rather a political one, and Hezbollah and its allies now believe there is a front that holds them responsible for what happened in the Beirut port.

From the protest of Hezbollah and Amal supporters in front of the Beirut Palace of Justice (Reuters)

From the protest of Hezbollah and Amal supporters in front of the Beirut Palace of Justice (Reuters)

He condemned himself to Tayouneh

Furthermore, he felt that the Shiite duo, Hezbollah and the “Amal Movement” have condemned each other for what happened in the Tayouneh events.

He also believed that true justice would only be achieved by going towards an international investigation.

He said: “If Hezbollah is successful in the battle of Tariq al-Bitar, then the biggest Christian loser will be its ally, the Free Patriotic Movement, hence the lesser evil for the movement to break its alliance with the party.”


The fireball is in the government court

A few days ago the government was the scene of a political conflict over the judicial investigator, as the ministers of the Shiite duo and their ally, the Marada Movement, threatened to withdraw if they did not find a solution for Bitar and to stop the investigation. in translation of Nasrallah’s request that the government and the Supreme Judicial Council address the judge’s case, because his work is politicized, as he claimed.

Remains in pending pronouncement of the lawsuit of legitimate skepticism presented by the former Minister of Public Works and Transport Youssef Fenianos before the Court of Cassation, the one that dismissed the former judge Fadi Sawan last February and which was presented by the accused, former minister Ghazi Zuaiter.

Supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal movement protest against Judge Bitar

Supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal movement protest against Judge Bitar

Although the government has no legal options, according to experts, because it is not the right party to consider a court case based on the principle of separation of powers, Hezbollah’s pressure on it will prompt it to take the fireball and try to find a case. via exit.

political director

In this context, the former head of the Constitutional Council, Judge Essam Suleiman, explained to Al-Arabiya.net that throwing the ball in the council court is looking for one via “political” exit for the case and not a legal one, and this means putting an end to the course of justice in the explosion of the port of Beirut and evading the investigation ».

He also confirmed that “Judge Tariq Al-Bitar was not appointed by a decree of the Council of Ministers, but by a decision of the then Minister of Justice, Marie Chloe Najm, and therefore does not have the authority to dismiss him, but if decides to withdraw the case from the Council of the Judiciary and refer it to the ordinary judiciary, this will be a dangerous precedent, because it will demonstrate the interference of the political authority that deals with the affairs of the judiciary and prevents it from exercising its functions, which constitutes a violation of the principle of separation of powers “.

Tariq Bitar

Tariq Bitar

intervention traveled

However, he deplored, “because the road taken by the case of the attack on the port deviates in the political direction, and therefore the via the exit will be politics, and this is a clear interference with the work of the judicial authority “.

In case in that the government distances itself from the case to avoid detonating it with the spark of the port investigations, the choice will go in the direction of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary, which the secretary general of Hezbollah has placed in the category of those who must “find a solution for the ‘judicial investigator “.

Supreme Judicial Council

With the completion of the members of the Supreme Judicial Council headed by Judge Suhail Abboud, the replacement of Judge Al-Bitar requires an ordinary majority (i.e. 5 out of eight votes) in agreement with the Minister of Justice, but this option is excluded, according to sources. judicial, “because the Council supports what the judicial investigator is doing”.

The sources stressed that “the legal solution of the case could be in the House of Representatives by referring the file to the Supreme Council of the Process of Presidents and Ministers, which means a” positive conflict of jurisdiction “, ie the presence of two courts believed to have jurisdiction over a file “.

Returning to the government and its fate, sources close to the republican palace reported to Al Arabiya.net that the Minister of Justice (who met with President Michel Aoun yesterday), in coordination with the judicial investigator, is handling the case through the Supreme Council of the Judiciary after the appointments are completed in it, and it is the natural place to address the question. What happened in based on the principle of separation of powers.

The sources also indicated that “the Council of Ministers cannot rule against the judicial investigator in based on the principle of separation of powers, whereby the processing is carried out through the institution concerned with the judges “.

He explained: “Presidents Michel Aoun and Najib Mikati will not invite a cabinet session now to allow judicial trials to run their course.”

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