Attorney General Judge Said Mirza said that he was “shocked” by a Lebanese court’s decision to release four people convicted of collaborating with Israel.
“We are fighting to [catch] the agents of the Israeli enemy, not to release them,” Mirza said in an interview with Al-Akhbar newspaper published on Monday.
He added that the Military Court of Cassation, headed by Judge Alice Shebtini, decided to release the four individuals “without my knowledge.”
However, Mirza said that “there is no legal problem with the court’s decision.”
The Military Court had sentenced the four people from the Al-Alam family to prison for 10 to 15 years on collaboration charges. They were released on bail last week after having been detained for almost three years.
Following their attorney’s appeal of the verdict, the Military Court of Appeals decided to release the four and stage a retrial.
Hezbollah slammed judge Shebtini’s decision in a move believed by analysts to be linked to competition to fill the vacant post of the Higher Judicial Council’s president.
Shebtini is said to be supported by President Michel Sleiman, while Hezbollah’s key Christian ally, MP Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement has nominated another candidate to fill the seat.
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