Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah wants to torpedo the investigation of the catastrophic explosion at the Beirut port, the website Al-Janoubia, identified with the Lebanese opposition, claimed on Monday.
According to the site, Nasrallah has reached an understanding with Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Gebran Basil of the Free Patriotic Movement than the investigation of the blast must be blocked, and that Israel must be blamed for the incident, which killed hundreds and left thousands wounded and hundreds of thousands homeless in the Lebanese capital.
Unnamed sources told Al-Janoubia that the faulty storage of the ammonium nitrate – the material that caused the explosion – was the result of corruption at the government level, and that if officials were found guilty, they could be hanged for "destroying half of Beirut," and causing widespread economic, psychological, and public health harm.
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The site also claimed that the attempts to interfere with the investigation, which is focusing on a few functionaries and a number of military officials, was a direct attack on the mothers and children of the hundreds of people who lost their lives in the explosions.
Meanwhile, various news outlets in Lebanon were reporting Monday that the prosecutor in the Beirut case has instructed police to arrest the port's customs director.
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