Hezbollah likely knew beforehand that Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) investigators were coming to Dahiyeh, and the attack on them is a “direct message of non-cooperation with the tribunal,” Lebanon First bloc MP Mohammad Hajjar told New TV on Thursday.
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.
It is illogical to expect the investigators to announce publicly the names of those whom they are going to investigate, Hajjar said, adding that according to media reports Charara was given the choice of meeting with investigators at the STL’s office, but preferred to have them come to her clinic.
The investigators took the necessary legal steps and were doing their job, he added, suggesting that rather than asking why they were in Dahiyeh, attention should be paid to the fact that groups are telling the international community clearly that they do not want the tribunal.
It is not so easy to stop the STL, he added, stating that the tribunal will continue even if Prime Minister Saad Hariri renounces it or its funding is withdrawn.
PM Hariri has denied Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s July claim, in which the latter said that Hariri told him the STL’s indictment will name members of Hezbollah, Hajjar also said.
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.
It is illogical to expect the investigators to announce publicly the names of those whom they are going to investigate, Hajjar said, adding that according to media reports Charara was given the choice of meeting with investigators at the STL’s office, but preferred to have them come to her clinic.
The investigators took the necessary legal steps and were doing their job, he added, suggesting that rather than asking why they were in Dahiyeh, attention should be paid to the fact that groups are telling the international community clearly that they do not want the tribunal.
It is not so easy to stop the STL, he added, stating that the tribunal will continue even if Prime Minister Saad Hariri renounces it or its funding is withdrawn.
PM Hariri has denied Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s July claim, in which the latter said that Hariri told him the STL’s indictment will name members of Hezbollah, Hajjar also said.
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