More Food Warehouses, Shops Raided as Questioning of al-Natour Brothers Adjourned
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More food product shops and warehouses were raided on Tuesday as Beirut’s Examining Magistrate adjourned the questioning of Samih and Suleiman al-Natour.
The Tyre Municipality health commission seized a large quantity of spoiled food during an inspection of shops in the city, the National News Agency reported.
“The spoiled food was destroyed and the owners were fined as all those who are concerned were warned,” head of Tyre Municipality Hassan Dbouq said.
The confiscated goods included canned food, meat, cheese and several other consumer products.
“The Municipality of Tyre will not tolerate (violations) regarding the safety of food,” Dbouq noted.
He revealed that the inspection rounds will be “intensified.”
NNA also reported that the Consumer Protection Directorate with the support of the Internal Security Forces raided a warehouse for A. K. el-Hajj in Burj el-Moulouk town in Marjayoun.
The confiscated products include 30 boxes of expired chicken and meat.
The warehouse was sealed and its owner was referred to Burj el-Moulouk police station for questioning.
Meanwhile, Beirut Examining Magistrate Ghassan Owaidat adjourned until Friday the questioning of al-Natour Brothers, who were arrested on charges of processing and selling spoiled meat and other food products and for the attempted murders of the consumers to whom they knowingly sold expired food.
Arrest warrants were issued against al-Natour brothers and the Ministry of Economy’s Consumer Protection Directorate raided last week the warehouse owned by them in Sabra area in Tarik el-Jadeedah where they confiscated 25 tons of expired meat.
Prime Minister Najib Miqati called for an emergency meeting at the Grand Serail on Wednesday to tackle the rise in the discovery of spoiled food products in Lebanon.
The meeting will be held in the presence of Economy Minister Nicolas Nahhas, Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi, Agriculture Minister Hussein Hajj Hassan, Interior Minister Marwan Charbel and high-ranking officials from the general security, the state security, the army intelligence and the customs.
An Nahar reported on Monday the meeting will seek to formulate a mechanism regarding the “safety of food,” and tasking each side to carry out a mission regarding the matter as the Ministry of Economy’s Consumer Protection Directorate can’t cover all the areas in Lebanon.
President Michel Suleiman also slammed the rise of spoiled food in Lebanon, deeming such cases as “unacceptable.”
Recently, the Consumer Protection Directorate raided several warehouses in al-Fanar and Beirut’s southern suburbs that were selling spoiled meet and food product.
13 March 2012, 12:01
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hehehehehe...... they were warned LOLOL!!!!!! I guess the state cannot do more than warn ashraf al nass coz they are backed up by the glorious resistance and its 40, 000 plus short and long medium range missiles.....
13 March 2012, 12:12
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ashraf al nass distributing ashraf meat....! They only get warned???? mishmaoul...... i guess we all know why they just got a warning......
13 March 2012, 13:40
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common knowledge in lebanon is that if you know a person in power you get away with murder, lets investigate the decision makers, then again they pay well so no one says anything..
13 March 2012, 14:15
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To Anti Shia, are u serious?! we all know that Al Natour are backed by Hariri! get a life!
13 March 2012, 14:37
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Good heavens hope M14 didn't eat too much meat these past months:p
14 March 2012, 09:04
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@ Sophia_angle , ya falte, as a woman ( if you really are one ) what did the general give you? his slogan " Sois belle et vote " really fooled you hahaha, no women ministers, 1 Woman Mp in his bloc and overall with his allies is his only one woman MP, compared to March 14th, you have more than 4-5 women MPS. Hariri is still the extremist and sexist one? or maybe your lover boy Flamethrower didnt tell you that. Your general is fooling you each day and as i said in earlier posts, he is lucky to have followers with chicken brains like yourselves. And finally Sophia_angle , i think general Aoun slogan for women really was : Sois belle et tais toi ;) which i am sure applies to you
14 March 2012, 17:04
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On what grounds do you call her ya falte? Shame on you. A man who can not debate without insulting the womans sexuality is not a man. This just prooves how filthy the mentality of lebanese men are, whether m8 or m14, both side degrade women and only want them to cook, clean and shop, make plastic surgery and be their sex slaves. Shameful. All religious groupw in lebanon are like this so nobody should pretend to be more moral than the other now.
14 March 2012, 09:14
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March 8 and 14, stop your stupid bickering and focus on the real issues. Hell with Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and any goddam foreign issues. Why should the Lebanese focus all of their energy on outside problems, where the internal once are in abundance? I have never seen such dumb people who do their best at destroying their own country for the sake of outsiders. We hare being poisoned on a daily basis and no one is giving a dam from the public to do anything about it!!!! We are so good at making street protests for foreign issues, but never for domestic ones. If you are hoping that Allah or Jesus will save you out of their misery, then you better wait for Eternity, for all the Gods have forsaken you long time ago.
14 March 2012, 16:54
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@ Flamethrower, she has been constantly polite and dumb like yourself :), Gilberte zwein, hahaha you must be kidding me? people i know know her and her Ya7chouchi actions for Lebanon, she is a nobody with zero influence ,zero charisma, zero education. Just family money and some connections ( of course that lead to your general ). There was no one that stopped women to run for elections with the tayyar? so you are saying no women wanted to be on the list? or maybe your general didnt want them to be? that means 2 things : Either your women supporting tayyar are dumb and just shouting the general's name and dont even have the potential to be candidates or they are a minority that didnt even count in Aoun's decisions. We all know that all you did for women is bullshit. nd what about your allies? the ones you so call ashraf el nass? do they have women in their blocs? hariri is a hardline for you but he has more women mps that hezbollah's islamic views will ever allow
14 March 2012, 16:57
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Flame Thrower. For your info, I reside in Lebanon. So stop throwing your dumb conclusions and do Lebanon a favor by leaving it to the sane few who despise CrapThrowers like yourself. It seems that your flames have thrown your common sense out of your mind.
14 March 2012, 17:02
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@ Flamethrower, ya3ne shou bade ellak, you are such an idiot, there is no word that can ever explain the level of stupidity that describes your tiny birdy brain. All i meant is for your baby sophia_angle to explain to me if she understands what she got with her general of women rights... And yes sois belle et tais toi est le slogan du general Aoun, le diffamateur de propos, le menteur , le faux-prophete et le lache qui realise des virements records a la Jumblat et qui se moque de lui ensuite. Vous etes des sous-fifres chez un homme qui est lui meme sous-fifre . Des eslaves chez un esclave. Votre vie et vos opinions ne valent pas plus que la chaussure d'un des honorables soldats qui est mort lorsque votre maitre senfuyait de Baabda. On en a connu, trahis , et vous? etiez vous caches dans vos sous-sol entrain de chialer? ou etiez vous sur les tanks syriens aussi ?demeures
14 March 2012, 18:52
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I believe all the chickens usually expire around the time their head is cut off. Have you ever tried to convince an unexpired chicken to go into the oven on it's own along with the potatoes, never would happen.
