Free and United Lebanon bloc MP Salim Karam said in an interview published on Sunday that Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare is no longer aware of his jurisdictions’ limits, and added that the latter’s requests from Lebanese ministers are illogical.
“The four ministers who did not respond to Bellemare’s requests [to provide him with certain data] acted very wisely,” Karam told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa.
If the ministers had responded to Bellemare’s requests positively, political confrontations would have sparked again and negatively affected the cabinet formation process, the MP also said.
“The time at which Bellemare made his requests is suspicious and [shows] bad intents regarding the calm [atmosphere] in Lebanon.”
The Daily Star newspaper reported on Wednesday that four ministers have not complied with information requests from Bellemare.
Bellemare, investigating the 2005 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri, submitted his draft indictment in the case to STL Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen in mid-January.
Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati was appointed to the premiership in January with the March 8 coalition’s backing following the collapse of Saad Hariri’s unity government due to a long-running dispute over the UN-backed probe.
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