Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri visited today the Grand Serial, where he met with caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab to express his solidarity with him after his indictment in Beirut’s port explosion.
After the meeting, Hariri said: “I came to the Premiership to express my categorical rejection of the clear and flagrant constitutional breach committed by the judge by indicting the prime minister.”
“The constitution is clear, and prime ministers appear only before a special court set up by Parliament. The premiership should not be blackmailed. This is rejected and we will not accept it. The families of the martyrs have the right to know the truth, they have the right to know who allowed this ship to enter and who covered up for this. But violating the constitution and indicting the prime minister is unacceptable. I came to stand with the prime minister and to express my solidarity with him.”
Lebanese Judicial investigator in the Beirut port explosion, Judge Fadi Sawan, pressed charges against Caretaker Prime Minister, Hassan Diab and three former ministers for “negligence and causing death and harm to hundreds of people.”
Source: Al-Manar English Website