The poster announcing the 4th commemoration of the assassination of Lokman Slim reads: "The evidence is overwhelming, but it has been decided to close the investigation without further action."
A few days before the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the assassination of the Shiite intellectual and fierce Hezbollah critic, Lokman Slim, on Feb. 3, 2021, the hopes that the judiciary would identify and punish the criminals have dwindled. L’Orient-Le Jour learned that Beirut’s acting first investigative judge Bilal Halawi, in charge of the case, decided on Dec. 5, 2024 to “temporarily close the file at the court’s administration service,” which means to suspend the investigation “until new elements emerge.”“It makes no sense to close an investigation when the case contains so much forensic evidence,” said Slim’s sister and publisher Rasha al-Ameer. According to her, the information that the judicial authorities have in hand provides sufficient answers as to the identity of the criminals, who are “well known in the...
A few days before the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the assassination of the Shiite intellectual and fierce Hezbollah critic, Lokman Slim, on Feb. 3, 2021, the hopes that the judiciary would identify and punish the criminals have dwindled. L’Orient-Le Jour learned that Beirut’s acting first investigative judge Bilal Halawi, in charge of the case, decided on Dec. 5, 2024 to “temporarily close the file at the court’s administration service,” which means to suspend the investigation “until new elements emerge.”“It makes no sense to close an investigation when the case contains so much forensic evidence,” said Slim’s sister and publisher Rasha al-Ameer. According to her, the information that the judicial authorities have in hand provides sufficient answers as to the identity of the criminals, who are “well...
