Three years after the explosion of the port of Beirut, no truth

  Exactly three years after the devastating explosion that took place in block 12 of the port of Beirut, no truth has emerged from the investigations. The explosion caused damage to half of the administrative district of Beirut, damaged 90% of the medicine warehouse in the Karantina neighborhood and completely destroyed the grain warehouse. The dead were 220 and 6500 wounded, including two Italian soldiers. On the anniversary of the massacre, the secretary general of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said: "The one who seeks the truth about the port explosion is the one who has politicized this crime. The real reason why the truth about the attack on the port of Beirut is not reached is the interference of foreign powers with the complicity of some Lebanese political parties".

Sadly, if the investigator is a party, the investigation cannot go ahead, but rather it will be an investigation that serves a political party, while the investigation, trial and justice must serve all Lebanese people and not employ them on the agenda. politics of a domestic or foreign party. We hope that a solution can be found for this horrendous crime, because the Lebanese have the right to know who is responsible for this massacre that has caused all this devastation, the death of hundreds of innocent people and the worsening destabilization of Lebanon.

Beirut and all of Lebanon are preparing to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the devastating explosion of the port of Beirut,... in which on August 4, 2020 about 250 people died, another 6 thousand were injured, many of whom were maimed or disfigured for life . The explosion, which damaged a third of the Lebanese city, was caused by the explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, illegally kept for more than 6 years in one of the warehouses in the port of Beirut, a few hundred meters from the capital's town center Lebanese. Soon, at 4 pm, the relatives of the victims, activists and ordinary people will gather for a silent march that will start from the Fire Station in the Karantina district, one of the most affected by the explosion, and which will arrive on the terrace in front of the port towards 5.30pm local time.

The procession should continue towards Piazza dei Martiri, for years a symbol of popular protests against the political class, held by many to be responsible for the country's financial default, which became apparent in 2019, and for the ammonium nitrate explosion itself in 2020. The investigation the Lebanese judicial system, led by Judge Tareq Bitar, has in fact been covered up for more than a year by a series of bureaucratic and political maneuvers by members of the political class.