The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, affirmed the parliament’s readiness to lift the immunities of all, without exception, including the judiciary, in the case of the Beirut port explosion.
Berri added, in statements reported by Lebanese media, that “the council’s priority was and will remain full cooperation with the judiciary in order to know the full truth in the case of the Beirut port explosion.”
He said that “the finger of accusation in the case of the explosion of the port should be directed at those who try to trade in blood for open purposes,” noting that “the council in the case of the explosion of the port of Beirut with the law from A to Z, and enough is a distortion of the facts.”
The former Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, said that he was still insisting on the international investigation into the explosion of the Beirut port as the only way to reach the truth. Hariri wrote on his personal account on Twitter: “Facing the scale of this crime, the families of the martyrs, the victims and the wounded, and Beirut, which was destroyed, deserve that we all make sacrifices and lift the immunities of everyone in order to reach the truth.”
It is noteworthy that on August 4 of the last year, a large explosion occurred in the port of Beirut, killing more than 200 people, wounding more than 6,500, and destroying neighborhoods surrounding the port.
Several media outlets accused “Hezbollah” of storing weapons at the site of the explosion, and this is what the leader of the party, Hassan Nasrallah, “categorically denied” that his party had any “weapons store, missile store, rifle, bomb, bullet or nitrate”.