Debris in the Beirut Port, June 27, 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient-Le Jour)
The specially appointed Indictment Chamber confirmed on Wednesday the dismissal of the charges for “usurping power” against the Court of Justice Judge Tarek Bitar, who leads the investigation into the Beirut port blast, a judicial source told L’Orient-Le Jour. The ruling, delivered more than a month after Judge Habib Rizkallah’s decision, further paves the way for Bitar to finally publish his indictment in the Aug. 4, 2020, case, which had been awaited for years. How we got here Three years later, Tarek Bitar resumes hearings In January 2023, former Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidate accused Bitar of “usurping the role of investigative judge and abusing power” after Bitar decided to resume his investigation into the case despite the numerous lawsuits political and security officials implicated in the case had filed against him....
The specially appointed Indictment Chamber confirmed on Wednesday the dismissal of the charges for “usurping power” against the Court of Justice Judge Tarek Bitar, who leads the investigation into the Beirut port blast, a judicial source told L’Orient-Le Jour. The ruling, delivered more than a month after Judge Habib Rizkallah’s decision, further paves the way for Bitar to finally publish his indictment in the Aug. 4, 2020, case, which had been awaited for years. How we got here Three years later, Tarek Bitar resumes hearings In January 2023, former Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidate accused Bitar of “usurping the role of investigative judge and abusing power” after Bitar decided to resume his investigation into the case despite the numerous lawsuits political and security officials implicated in the case had filed...
