Future bloc MP Mohammad al-Hajjar submitted a request on behalf of his bloc to the cabinet for an inquiry regarding the issue of the seven kidnapped Estonians who were released earlier in July, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Hajjar said that he filed the request through Speaker Nabih Berri on July 25, adding that he did not announce it earlier upon the request of Berri’s office so that it be ratified before made public.
The inquiry requests clarification about the “mysteriousness” of the abduction, the MP said, adding that the Lebanese people have the right to know what really happened.
Seven Estonian men, in their 30s and early 40s, were freed on July 14 after a kidnap ordeal of almost four months. They were abducted at gunpoint on March 23 while on a cycling holiday in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, after arriving from neighboring Syria.
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