Gemayel Slams Geagea Summoning as 'Bargaining' Attempt
Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel on Tuesday lashed out at the Military Court over the summoning of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, reminding that his party had repeatedly called for dissolving it.
Kataeb had “submitted a proposal for amending the military judiciary’s law and limiting its jurisdiction to servicemen, due to the selectivity that the military judiciary uses with civilians,” Gemayel added.
“The military judiciary has mostly been the repressive arm of police states that the Lebanese have resisted and triumphed over every time,” the Kataeb leader added.
“After what Hizbullah’s secretary-general said and the direct threat that his assistant Wafiq Safa addressed to Judge (Tarek) Bitar, and after the pictures and videos that the Lebanese saw, it will be difficult to convince any objective observer that what is happening anew through the military judiciary, including the summoning of LF leader Samir Geagea, is not actually a mere attempt to create a bargaining card to bury the probe into the Beirut port case,” Gemayel went on to say.
Source: Naharnet
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