BEIRUT: Hoax calls threatening to detonate a bomb in Justice Palace in Baabda over the weekend have been traced to Vienna and Peru, a judicial source said.
Over four telephone calls Friday morning, anonymous callers threatened to detonate a bomb in Justice Palace unless it was immediately evacuated.
The judicial source told The Daily Star that State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza had asked Abdel Monem Youssef, the head of Lebanon’s telecoms provider OGERO, to track the calls.
Three of the phone calls were soon determined to have come from Vienna, in Austria, and one from Peru, the sources added.
Mirza also asked Youssef to try and trace these numbers to determine if they had made any calls to other people in Lebanon who might be connected with the case, the sources said.
Friday’s bomb alert was the fourth bomb scare against judicial authorities in the past seven months. Sources say the method has been used to delay trials.
Baabda’s Justice Palace was the target of a bomb scare in December of last year, and on June 7, the Justice Ministry in Beirut received a similar threat.
Mirza said at the time of the June threat that the bomb scare had come after 10 judges received phone calls from an anonymous caller, who warned them against holding trials.
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