Now Lebanon - STL’s Roux calls on suspects to appear before court - September 09, 2011

Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Defense Office head François Roux, in an interview published on Friday, called on the four people indicted for the 2005 assassination of  former Premier Rafik Hariri to “appear before the court and defend themselves.”
Roux told As-Safir newspaper that “it is not enough to say through the media that the accused men are innocent.”
“The right place to challenge the indictment is the court,” he added.
He also said that the Defense Office is looking forward to confronting the indictment “because it includes [debatable] sections,” in a reference to the telecommunications data mentioned in the indictment to link the suspects to the assassination.
Roux also said that his office will continue asking Pre-trial Judge Daniel Fransen to have Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare give former head of Lebanon’s General Security Directorate Jamil as-Sayyed the files he is requesting.
Jamil as-Sayyed, one of the four generals arrested in 2005 for allegedly being involved in the Rafik Hariri assassination, was later released in 2009 due to lack of evidence. He has requested from the president of the STL, Antonio Cassese, access to his investigation files.
The STL indicted last month four Hezbollah members for the 2005 assassination of  former Premier Rafik Hariri. However, the Shia group ruled out the arrest of the four suspects.