Arrest Warrants Against 7 Suspects Accused of Assault on Clerics
Beirut Examining Magistrate Judge Ghassan Owaidat issued on Tuesday arrest warrants against the seven suspects involved in the attacks against four Sheikhs in Beirut.
Owaidat kicked off interrogations with the seven men earlier in the day.
Four of the suspects are accused of assaulting two Dar al-Fatwa clerics Sheikh Mazen Hariri and Sheikh Ahemd Fakhran in Khandaq al-Ghamiq area in Beirut, a majority Shiites neighborhood.
The remaining three are suspected of attacking two other Sheikhs, Omar al-Imami and Ibrahim Abdil Latif, in the Shiyyah in Beirut's southern suburb.
The detainees have been identified as Hasan Mansour, Hasan Kaakour, Bilal Aoun, Ali Mansour, Hasan Mahmoud, minor Mohammed S. and Talal Mansour.
Last week, General Prosecutor Judge Hatem Madi referred the case along with a lawsuit filed by Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani over the attacks.
Qabbani had also requested to refer the case to the Supreme Judicial Council given the danger of crimes committed against state security and civil peace in an attempt to stir strife among different confessions.
The Council deals with crimes that threaten civil peace.
Tensions soared in Beirut and several roads were blocked in protest at attacks on four clerics in two separate incidents in Khandaq al-Ghamiq and Shiyyah.
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