judge Bitar refuses to step down from Beirut Port blast probe

judge Bitar refuses to step down from Beirut Port blast probe

FILE – In this Aug. 4, 2021 file photo, a monument that represents justice stands in front of towering grain silos that were gutted in the massive August 2020 explosion at the port that killed at least 245people , wounded over 7,000, destroyed a large section of the capital and left 300, 000 homeless in Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah and and its allies are trying to get rid of Judge Tarek Bitar who is probing the blast and were able to suspend his investigation several times . a move that outraged the relatives of the victims of the blast . Hezbollah is reportedly concerned over being exposed for its role in acquiring, storing and using of the ammonium nitrate that exploded at the port (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

The chief judicial investigator in the Beirut port explosion, Judge Tariq Al-Bitar, confirmed, in an interview with the “LBCI” channel, that “I will not leave the port file, and what the c of Cassation did is contrary to the law, since he recused himself