Three months to the day after the killing of Roland Murr, head of the Lebanese Forces office in Karm al-Zeitoun, the party held a press conference Tuesday titled “The Murder of Justice Will Not Go Unpunished” to discuss the latest security and judicial developments in the case.

Murr was shot dead in early December during a brawl in the heart of Achrafieh involving members of the group Jnoud al-Rabb (Soldiers of the Lord).

For this crime that “shook civil peace in the Karm el-Zeitoun neighborhood,” Lebanese Forces MP Ghassan Hasbani said, “So far, we are still waiting for justice to be done and for the criminals to be sanctioned.” He noted that some suspects are still at large despite being the subject of arrest warrants. He thanked security services for their cooperation in arresting those already detained and issuing the necessary warrants but criticized “flagrant negligence by certain security bodies, though they are competent in such operations.” He did not name specific agencies.

“These same forces have proven their effectiveness by making very rapid arrests in other cases where the murderer was unknown. However, in this specific case, the culprit and his accomplices are identified, yet they still roam freely,” Hasbani said.

The incident involving Jnoud al-Rabb has sparked outrage within the Lebanese Forces, prompting party leader Samir Geagea to implicitly call for the group’s dissolution in an appeal to then-caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi.

During Tuesday’s press conference, Violette Murr, lawyer and daughter of the killed official, denounced Jnoud al-Rabb as an “extremist group that neither reflects God’s teachings nor words and above all, bears no resemblance to the residents of Achrafieh,” according to the Lebanese Forces’ account.

Elie Charbachi, the Lebanese Forces coordinator in Beirut, announced that the party has filed a complaint with the competent prosecutor against Jnoud al-Rabb “for all the crimes it has committed in recent years, the most recent being the assassination of Roland Murr.”

The group was notably involved in an attack on Aug. 12, 2023, against an LGBT bar in the Mar Mikhael district of Beirut.

Charbachi said the case is “currently being followed by the first investigating judge of Beirut with seriousness and professionalism, in accordance with legal procedures.” He concluded by affirming that “the judicial process will continue until justice is served.”