The style of attack used against Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) investigators in Dahiyeh is nothing new and will likely be used again in the future, Future Movement official Mustafa Allouch told MTV on Thursday, saying the incident is a “clear message from Hezbollah to the STL.”
A group of women charged at STL investigators at a Beirut gynecology clinic in Dahiyeh on Wednesday morning and grabbed a briefcase from them. Afterward the STL condemned the attack and said that its investigators had arranged to interview clinic owner Dr. Iman Charara with approval from the Lebanese authorities, the Doctors Syndicate and Dr. Charara herself.
Allouch said the incident recalled attacks against UNIFIL. In July, tensions rose between UNIFIL and southern residents when protests broke out during a UNIFIL maneuver and several peacekeepers were physically attacked.
It is naïve to think that such incidents are spontaneous and unplanned, he added, saying that “there is an attempt to eliminate the judicial process via a popular approach.”
Asked about rumors that men disguised in niqabs were among the women who attacked, Allouch said he could neither confirm nor deny such information, but that “regardless of whether there were men or women, it was an attack.”
A group of women charged at STL investigators at a Beirut gynecology clinic in Dahiyeh on Wednesday morning and grabbed a briefcase from them. Afterward the STL condemned the attack and said that its investigators had arranged to interview clinic owner Dr. Iman Charara with approval from the Lebanese authorities, the Doctors Syndicate and Dr. Charara herself.
Allouch said the incident recalled attacks against UNIFIL. In July, tensions rose between UNIFIL and southern residents when protests broke out during a UNIFIL maneuver and several peacekeepers were physically attacked.
It is naïve to think that such incidents are spontaneous and unplanned, he added, saying that “there is an attempt to eliminate the judicial process via a popular approach.”
Asked about rumors that men disguised in niqabs were among the women who attacked, Allouch said he could neither confirm nor deny such information, but that “regardless of whether there were men or women, it was an attack.”
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