“How, who, what, where ? There will be judicial decisions, it is serious and we take it seriously,” said the lebanese minister of foreign Affairs.
The lebanese authorities gave four days to a “committee of investigation” to establish responsibility for explosions which have caused Tuesday of the scenes of devastation in Beirut, announced on Thursday the head of the diplomacy Charbel Wehbé, on the French radio Europe 1.
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“Since this morning, a decision was made to create a committee of investigation, who has four days to give a detailed report on the responsibilities. How, who, what, where ? There will be judicial decisions, it is serious and we take it seriously,” said the lebanese minister of foreign Affairs. “The perpetrators of this horrible crime of negligence will be punished by a committee of judges,” he added.
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on Wednesday, the government had called for the arrest of the persons responsible for the storage in the port of the lebanese capital, a large quantity of ammonium nitrate, a substance used in the composition of some fertilizer but also explosives.
“A very serious neglect”
The huge explosions in Beirut have left at least 137 dead and 5,000 wounded, according to the ministry of Health, while 300 000 people are left homeless. The disaster is due, according to the authorities, to a fire in a warehouse which housed the ammonium nitrate. “It is an accident ( … ), the preliminary reports indicate that it is a bad management of explosives. This is a very serious neglect, which continued for six years,” said Charbel Wehbé Thursday.
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international aid began arriving in Lebanon, France, Egypt and the Gulf countries in particular. The French president Emmanuel Macron was en route Thursday morning to Beirut, where he will be the first foreign heads of State to visit since the disaster. He should discuss with his counterpart Michel Aoun and the principal political leaders as well as with representatives of civil society.
