STL Spokesman Reiterates Bellemare Won’t Debate Probe in Media
Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare is pursuing all the highly credible investigative threads and he will only depend on credible and convincing evidence, Gregory Townsend, acting spokesperson for the Office of the Prosecutor, said Friday.
In an interview with Lebanese daily Sada al-Balad to be published Saturday, Townsend reiterated that the prosecutor “will not engage in a public debate in the media about the credibility of his investigation or of the investigative process.”
Asked about Hizbullah’s remarks that Bellemare ignored questions raised by the party’s secretary-general regarding alleged ties between some STL investigators and Western intelligence agencies and the 97 computers transferred to Israel, Townsend said: “If someone reads the press release issued on July 4, they will in fact find that the prosecutor had tackled the issues mentioned by Sayyed Nasrallah, despite all the attempts to prove the opposite.”
The acting spokesperson reiterated that “the proper forum to challenge the investigation or the evidence gathered as a result, is in open court during a trial that will fully comply with international standards.”
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