BEIRUT: Kataeb Party MP Elie Marouni Wednesday accused Syria of involvement in the 1982 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel.
“Syria stands behind the assassination of late Bashir Gemayel and we have known this from the beginning,” Marouni said in remarks marking the 29th anniversary of the assassination of Gemayel, who was a senior member of Kataeb (or Phalange) party during the 1975-90 Lebanese Civil War.
Gemayel was elected head of state on Aug. 23, 1982 while Lebanon was under Israeli occupation and Syrian hegemony.
He was assassinated Sept. 14, 1982, along with 26 others, when a bomb exploded in the Beirut headquarters of Kataeb. Marouni said that the bomb was planted by Habib Shartouni, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP).
“Syria is protecting Habib Shartouni who carried out the crime,” Marouni said, adding that the killer is wandering around in Syrian areas and in some parts of Lebanon.
Marouni pointed out the case in to the assassination was never appropriately handled by judicial authorities and it has not been closed.
He said that justice will only be served when those behind the attack are captured and tried for their crimes.
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