March 23, 2010 - Daily Star - Tribunal investigators to start 3D filming at Hariri murder scene

BEIRUT: A UN investigation team will begin filming as of Tuesday a three-dimensional scene of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in the Saint George area, media reports said on Monday.

A security source told The Daily Star the team will also listen to witnesses, conduct interviews and collect information under the escort of Lebanese troops and police.

Pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat said the 11-strong investigation team, dispatched by Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare’s office, has been taking “ordinary photographs” of the crime scene and that 3D filming will only start on Tuesday.

Al-Hayat said the team will also review past testimonies given by witnesses before the UN investigation committee.

It said international investigators will also listen to dozens of new testimonies of witnesses in the Hariri case. The late former premier was assassinated on February 14, 2005.

Citing well-informed sources, Al-Hayat said the investigation team has already begun a re-survey of the major crimes of political nature that have taken place in Lebanon in the aftermath of Hariri’s assassination.

Al-Akhbar newspaper said Monday that Bellemare’s office has ordered 18 Lebanese people, Hizbullah members likely among them, to appear at to give their testimony as witnesses. – The Daily Star, with Naharnet