Families of a number of victims of the Beirut port bombing continue to sit-in in front of the Palace of Justice in support of the investigation led by magistrate Tariq Al-Bitar after his reopening of the investigation sparked an unprecedented battle. in the Lebanese judiciary. The main committee, representing the families of the victims and victims of the explosion, called on the Lebanese to take part in the sit-in “in support of the investigative path”, which Al-Bitar resumed, considering that the arbitrary jump and obstruction of the investigation Judge Al-Bitar, his honesty and the integrity of the investigative documents. According to Agence France-Presse, Beirut tightened security since early morning at the Palace of Justice, which looked like a military barracks, with a large number of security personnel in front of the office of the discriminatory attorney general. , Gassan Oveidat.
The 4 August 2020 explosion was said to have killed more than 215 and injured 6,500 people, with the Lebanese authorities linking the explosion to the storage of large amounts of ammonium nitrate inside the port without preventive measures, and the outbreak of a fire whose causes were unknown and later revealed that officials at several levels were aware of the dangers of stockpiling the substance and did nothing.
