Shamseddine and Customs Guard Charged with Assault on al-Jadeed Crew

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The military prosecutor charged on Tuesday a Customs officer and a guard over the use of excessive force against al-Jadeed television journalists, the state-run National News Agency reported.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged Col. Ibrahim Shamseddine and Mohammed al-Saghir and any other suspect whose name is revealed in the investigation, NNA said.

Saqr referred the file to the first military examining magistrate.

On Friday, Shamseddine failed to appear at a joint questioning session with one of al-Jadeed's reporters, who was allegedly assaulted outside the Customs General Directorate in downtown Beirut last week.

The TV crew were assaulted after reporter Riyad Qobeissi used a megaphone to demand an interview with Customs acting chief Shafiq Merhi about alleged corruption.

Following a lawsuit filed by al-Jadeed, the Central Criminal Investigations Department questioned the crew under the supervision of the state prosecutor for several hours before releasing them.

But the Customs agency claimed that Qobeissi used degrading language, adding it was not the appropriate manner to request an interview.

Merhi said Monday that he did not order customs agents to attack the crew.

“The Customs office will not protect the assailants,” he stressed.

Comments 11
Default-user-icon Tchaddd (Guest) 03 December 2013, 14:19

Get the hell out of this page with ure disgusting comments!!!! Go write for almanar u will be well paid.....

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2013, 15:11

unlike you ice-toy, i dont care what his sect is and i'm glad that they were charged, just like i said i hoped from the first day.

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2013, 15:31

it is, but not for the same reason.

Thumb benzona 03 December 2013, 23:51

Tu sers de bouc-émissaire icey! Anyone who cannot retaliate (because he/she refuses to lower himself) is systamitcally attacked by m8ers. and in the streets, M8ers assassinate our people.... making them martyrs and making us stronger and more determined than ever to topple them and to humiliate them publicly.

Thumb lebanon_first 03 December 2013, 15:15

most civil servants are shiaa anyway. Courtesy of Berri Human Resources Inc.

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 December 2013, 15:17

do you have stats for that? sounds like the kind of sectarian propaganda talk that any and every good willed Lebanese should steer clear of.

Thumb lebanon_first 03 December 2013, 20:10

mowaten. Dont hide behind your finger. We know full well that Berri human resources inc uses all his power to "make favors", and we know that his favors are usually "jobs", and he tends to favor a shia from nabatiyeh to a maronite from Kesrwein...

I would have been sectarian if i had insulted shias. I have not. I just pointed out on how the takeover of amal and HA on the country is also in government jobs.

As for stats, i dont have access to a database, but go have a walk in damane or tonzim or in EDL...

Thumb _mowaten_ 04 December 2013, 11:20

lebanon_first: i have no doubt that EACH and EVERY leader in leb favors his own family/area/sect, if only to secure loyalty and votes.
BUT
to say "most civil servants are shiaa" seems not only sectarian but also wrong, because there are quotas in most (all?) institutions that require a certain balance. without numbers and stats, you cannot make such statements because it would be libel and sectarian incitement.

Thumb lebanon_first 03 December 2013, 15:15

most civil servants are shiaa anyway. Courtesy of Berri Human Resources Inc.

Thumb benzona 03 December 2013, 23:47

Un semblant de justice. Fortunately,nobody died on that day... But the embezzlement goes on.

Default-user-icon truth (Guest) 04 December 2013, 00:59

They were about to uncover the lawless Hizb smuggling ring, through every port, and entry point in the country!