Port Victims' Relatives Slam Ferzli, Fahmi, Oueidat, Threaten Major Escalation
The relatives of the Beirut port blast victims on Friday staged a sit-in outside the Justice Palace in Beirut under the slogan “The Blood of Out Martyrs is Above Your Immunities”, in which they lashed out at several officials and threatened a major escalation in their protests.
“You must stop your political antics and you are requested to lift immunities immediately, seeing as there are no immunities above the blood of the 218 martyrs,” a spokesman for the families, Ibrahim Hoteit, said.
“You will not be able to arrest a might people and August 4 has become very near,” Hoteit added, stressing that the blood of the victims will not go in vain and advising politicians not to “ruin the country.”
Slamming Deputy Speaker Elie Frezli as a “fraudster,” Hoteit warned State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat against refraining from granting a permission for the prosecution of General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim.
“The failure to give a prosecution permission would be a conspiracy against our blood and sons and consequently you would face our rage and fury, so beware of playing with fire,” the spokesman threatened.
Noting that the families played a role in “preventing a major popular explosion” because they wanted to see tangible results in the investigation, Hoteit warned that the relatives are ready to “blow up the situation” if officials don’t cooperate with the probe.
Source: Naharnet
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