The attorney of the Republic de Paris announces this in a statement Wednesday to open an investigation for “involuntary injury”.
This is an announcement made on Wednesday afternoon in a press release by the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris. “A first count allows the identification of 21 persons of French nationality were injured in the explosion,” unveiling of Rémy Heitz, after the two explosions that took place Tuesday afternoon in Beirut. “The federation France Victims is mandated to carry without delay the aid and assistance of all the French victims and their loved ones,” says the press release of the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris.
According to the latest balance sheet supplied Wednesday afternoon by the minister of Health, Hamad Hassan, at least 113 people have died in the explosion and devastation at the port of Beirut, and dozens are unaccounted for. The huge blast occurred Tuesday, has also made 4,000 wounded. “Certainly there are still victims trapped under the rubble and we receive dozens of calls for missing persons”, has he said to journalists in the margins of a meeting of the government.
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The prosecutor of the Republic Paris also announces that the parquet de Paris opened an investigation after these two explosions. “Under its jurisdiction in respect of acts committed abroad, the pole accidents collective of the parquet de Paris the due diligence date a survey of the heads of unintentional injuries”, stated the prosecutor of the Republic. “The investigations are entrusted to the general directorate of the national gendarmerie”, he says.
Up to 300 000 people without a home
“The situation is apocalyptic, Beirut has never known it in its history,” quipped the governor of Beirut, Marwan Abboud. Up to 300,000 people are homeless, he said. The state of emergency was declared for two weeks after the double explosion presented as accidental by the authorities. The government also seeks to “assign home-makers”.
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Double explosion in Beirut
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according To the authorities, some 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, stored “without precautionary measures” at the port of Beirut, are at the origin of the power of the outbreaks, the worst experienced by the lebanese capital, in spite of its tormented history.
