Beshara Asmar Released on Bail, Apologizes for Abusive Remarks
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Beirut Investigative Judge George Rizk on Monday ordered the release of the head of the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers Beshara al-Asmar on LL500 thousand bail, the National News agency reported.
NNA said that Asmar has been released on bail, but the decision is pending the plaintiffs' move.
Asmar was detained in mid May over his abusive remarks against late former Maronite patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir.
“Accountability must be enforced on all Lebanese officials who caused tragedies of the Lebanese people,” Asmar told reporters after his release.
He also apologized for the comments he made about Sfeir saying it was a “slip of the tongue.”
Asmar’s leaked remarks have sparked a storm of outrage in the country. He was summoned for interrogation and kept in detention, amid calls for stripping him of his post.
A video that went viral on social media shows Asmar mocking Sfeir shortly before a televised press conference.
Asmar was unaware his microphone was on before the conference.
27 May 2019, 13:37
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shame on our judiciary for putting in jail for several days Bechara Asmar even though his remarks were insulting. They should put their energy arresting all the corrupt politicians and at least question how they got all those possessions. Just to mention that Mashnouk has not a flat, but a whole house in Wadi Abu Jamil.
27 May 2019, 16:46
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He said that Sfeir couldn't be a saint, seeing as how someone prayed to God in Sfeir's name to be relieved of his baldness (not badness) and it didn't work.
27 May 2019, 23:58
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Well... maybe he should't have been arrested, and freedom of speech is essential... but keep in mind that it is idiots like him who can trigger a civil war in this country...
