Hariri to Aoun: Killers of Martyrs, their Defenders will Land in Jail
Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri slammed Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun saying the only people who would land in jail are the assassins of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
“The only people whose fate is prison are the killers of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and all the Cedar Revolution martyrs, and the mentally sick people who are protecting them,” Hariri’s press office said in a statement late Tuesday.
Aoun threatened on Tuesday that many al-Mustaqbal movement officials would end up in prison.
“They didn’t appreciate our ‘one-way ticket’ joke. A new ward is being prepared for them in Roumieh prison and they will be granted a ‘one-way in’ ticket for it,” he told reporters after chairing the meeting of his Change and Reform bloc in Rabiyeh.
Accusing Aoun of “living under the protection of murderers and criminals,” Hariri’s statement said the Lebanese people will not be dragged behind “empty instigation slogans.”
With regards to the remarks made by Aoun about the one-way ticket and the expansion of wards at Roumieh prison, Hariri vowed to confront such attempts.
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