Geagea tells Lebanese to brace for 'very difficult 50 days'

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday accused the Presidency and its allies of seeking to commit as much violations as possible prior to the end of President Michel Aoun’s term, in connection with the controversy over a decision to name an alternate judicial investigator in the Beirut port blast case.

“Another crime is being committed against the martyrs and those affected by the Beirut port blast… No matter how much labels are fabricated and justifications are made, what is happening is the epitome of insolence and disregard for people’s lives, sentiments, properties and sources of income,” Geagea said in a statement.

“What the Presidency and its allies are trying to do through their justice minister, and not the minister of (real) justice, is an ethical and legal heresy, seeing as how can a judge rule in a file that is in the hands and under the supervision of another judge?” Geagea added.

He also warned that if the Presidency and its allies intend to violate the law in the remaining time of Aoun’s tenure, the Lebanese will witness “very difficult 50 days.”

“But we have never bowed to any difficulties and we will continue through all legal, legitimate and possible means in order not to allow the Presidency and its allies to manipulate the crime of the Beirut port explosion,” Geagea pledged.