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Beirut Port Blast: Beyond Michel Aoun, Public Prosecution Scrutinizes All Lines of Responsibility

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Judge Saab’s report on the Beirut port explosion scrutinizes the responsibility of Michel Aoun and others, urging Parliament to consider proceedings.

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The judicial and political controversy surrounding the Beirut port explosion has widened, extending beyond what was attributed to the opinion of Public Prosecutor Judge Mohammed Saab. The legal action led by former President Michel Aoun's lawyer, Wadih Akl, has shifted the dispute to a more sensitive and dangerous arena, centered on a fundamental question: Are we facing a criminal leak of a confidential file, or a fabricated narrative? […] The p…

Lebanon ' s discriminatory prosecution has re-examined the case of the Beirut port explosion to the front, with a request to charge former President Michel Awn, and to determine the responsibilities of the former Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, and other ministers and officials. The Beirut port explosion file returned to the front hours ago with heavy political and judicial shock, after the discriminatory prosecution ' s reading held high…

More than six years after the bombing of Beirut Harbour, and after a long and complex judicial process that made it difficult to reach the reading stage in itself, the file returned to the facade after arriving at an advanced station, with the judicial investigator, Judge Tarek Al-Bitar, receiving a briefing by the Special Prosecutor ' s Office, and the content of the reading of the request to bring charges against the former President of t…

Former Lebanese President Michel Aoun filed a complaint with the Cassation Public Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday following reports that a recommendation for prosecution had been issued in connection with the August 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which occurred in a devastating blast. Aoun's lawyer, Wadi Akul, said the charges are against "persons identified in the investigation and those who are unknown" and include defamation, insult, fa…

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ARAB NEWS broke the news on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
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