Saqr Orders Detention of Seven over Roumieh 'Explosive Sandwich'

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Monday ordered the detention of seven people in connection with a recent attempt to smuggle a sandwich containing an explosive material into the Roumieh prison, state-run National News Agency reported.

The suspects are six inmates and the security guard who tried to smuggle the sandwich, NNA said.

The Internal Security Forces' Intelligence Bureau had questioned the seven and held a joint interrogation involving Charbel Shalita and the other five inmates, “but they denied all the charges,” the agency added.

The Intelligence Bureau will refer the dossier to Saqr on Tuesday for further proceedings.

The Bureau interrogated on Saturday two Islamist inmates over the smuggling of explosives into Roumieh's bloc B facility.

On Thursday, the ISF thwarted an attempt by a prison guard to smuggle 150 grams of an explosive material inside a sandwich that was being delivered to the inmate Charbel Shalita, the murderer of Roland Chbeir.