In Absentia Trial in Bashir Gemayel Assassination Adjourned to April 28
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Judicial Council, Lebanon's highest court for state security crimes, on Friday held its second in absentia trial session in the case of the 1982 assassination of president-elect Bashir Gemayel.
After having issued an ultimatum asking the accused Habib Chartouni to turn himself in within 24 hours at the latest from Friday's session, the court decided to consider Chartouni a fugitive and to try him in absentia.
It also decided to launch in absentia proceedings against the other suspect in the case, Nabil al-Alam, seeing as no death certificate has been issued for him by the Directorate General of Personal Status.
Media reports had said that al-Alam had died of illness in 2014.
According to al-Jadeed TV, the Judicial Council has given al-Alam an ultimatum to turn himself in within 24 hours at the latest from the next session, which will be held on April 28.
State-run National News Agency, said the court also decided to strip Chartouni of all his civil rights and to seize any assets he has in Lebanon.
Protesters from a Syrian Social National Party faction calling itself the July 8 Movement meanwhile staged a protest near the Justice Palace in support of Chartouni.
Demonstrators carried banners and pictures and called on the Lebanese state to consider Chartouni “a hero not a criminal.”
Security forces took measures to prevent the demo from approaching the Justice Palace before eventually asking the protesters to leave the area.
Gemayel was a senior member of the Kataeb Party and the supreme commander of the Lebanese Forces militia during the early years of the civil war.
He was elected president on August 23, 1982 while the country was torn by civil war and occupied by both Israel and Syria.
Gemayel was assassinated on September 14, 1982, along with 26 others, when a bomb exploded in Kataeb's headquarters in Ashrafieh.
Chartouni, a member of the Syrian Social National Party, was later arrested in connection with the assassination. His sister was a resident of the apartment above the room Bachir was in. He had visited her the previous day and planted the bomb in her apartment.
The next day, he called her and told her to get out of the building. Once she was out, he detonated the bomb from a few kilometers away from the building.
Two days later Chartouni was arrested by the Lebanese Forces. At a press conference before being handed over to the Lebanese judiciary by the LF, he called Gemayel a traitor and accused him of “selling the country to Israel.”
He said he was given the explosives and the fancy long-range electronic detonator in West Beirut’s Ras Beirut district by Nabil al-Alam, who was reportedly SSNP's intelligence chief at the time.
Alam reportedly had close ties to the Syrian intelligence services and he swiftly fled to Syria after the assassination.
Chartouni spent eight years in Roumieh Prison without an official trial until he escaped on October 13, 1990 during the Syrian offensive to oust Michel Aoun from the Baabda Palace.
04 March 2017, 01:16
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what are you talking about bozo? the US army killed millions and millions of people in the last decades, all in the name of big profits and corporations bullying the world, yet these slave killers are glorified all over their medias and "culture"
04 March 2017, 01:18
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out of ten movies made in the US, 9.5 glorify the murderers on payroll.
04 March 2017, 08:56
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http://www.revolutions2040.com/usa-killed-20-million-people-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/
04 March 2017, 11:18
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"wouahaha" !? lol - is that a super-retard laugh? every time I give you a source you either disappear from the conversation or throw random accusations on the website to discredit it, but I notice you never tackle the contents that challenge your fanatical views.
04 March 2017, 11:19
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I wont get into the debate of how you decided that it was "on top of the "fake news" website lists", doubting there even is such a list, but let's look at some simple facts.
are you denying that in iraq alone 2 million people were killed by the US? first gulf war was 400,000 dead, the embargo caused the deaths of 1,000,000 mainly children and elderly, and at least 600,000 have died since 2003. then you have the wars in afghanistan, libya, the death squads in latin america, the CIA-run contra rebels and their 1300 terrorist attacks, the unimaginable bombings and massacres in vietnam and cambodia (which led to the rise of the red khmers who in turn killed millions), the korean war, the philippines.... and i'm not even half way through the list. are you denying all that too?
04 March 2017, 11:29
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not to mention the US is the only country to date to have used nukes on civilians as well as depleted uranium which causes incalculable increases in cancers, stillbirths and malformations over millions of years
04 March 2017, 16:59
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Protests calling him a hero not a criminal? Every single protester should be arrested for treachery! Can you imagine a group demonstrating against the accused assasin/s of JFK and calling him a hero?
The SSNP along with any party that has their main objective as the end of the state of the Lebanon should all be made illegal again. Jamaa Islamieh, SSNP and any other group that doesn't believe in the Lebanon, should be made illegal again immediately!
Makes me sick how we allow the celebration of our head of state, within our own land!
04 March 2017, 20:42
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"Can you imagine a group demonstrating against the accused assasin/s of JFK"
first, i totally could imagine that
and second, seriously, you comparing gemayel to kennedy? seriously????? for starters, kennedy wasnt put in place by a foreign power occupying the US in a time of war
07 March 2017, 14:28
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Mowaten... i often agree with you but this time I am a little shocked with your objections. President Bashir Gemayel to me is very similar to JFK! He wasn't appointed by Israel... in fact, he refused to make a peace agreement with Israel without the approval of the parliament. Yes, he allied with Israel against the PLO and Syria, which at the time wanted the destruction of Lebanon. Syria, believed Lebanon was the 16th Provence of Syria. The PLO, with Arafat as leader, declared the road to Jerusalem goes through Jounieh! The USA and Israel, wanted Lebanon to become new Palestine and the PLO and most of the Arab world want the battle against Israel to be faught in Lebanon, while Syria just believed Lebanon was the 16th Provence of Syria (just like china and Taiwan). Sheik Bashir was against all of them and so he was killed as a Patriot, hero of The Lebanon!
04 March 2017, 17:05
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it is a sterile debate you 2 are having... if you want to talk about victims then also mention the millions killed by japanese, the millions killed by russia and so on and so on...
there is not a single nation without blood of innocent victims on their hands. So usa is not worse nor better than any other country...
05 March 2017, 03:51
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and all of you should be jailed for treason and for collaborating with other states (aka syria and iran) against the interests of Lebanon. Needless to say anyone who puts Lebanon first is a traitor to your kind.
05 March 2017, 03:53
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To your kind anyone who puts the interests of Lebanon first is a traitor. You should all be tried and jailed for collaborating with syria and iran against the interests of Lebanon and it's people, bunch of traitors.
