A state official helped with the demolition of a heritage building

The Minister of Culture, Mohamed Daoud, revealed that the owner of one of the heritage buildings of the Achrafieh region had demolished the building "without the agreement of the Ministry of Culture, or even informed of the case ", stating that this would not have happened" without the support of a state official in charge of the protection of heritage buildings. Beirut and preserve its patrimonial architectural facade , and not the opposite. "

This came in a statement distributed by David's press office, in which:

"It is important for the Minister of Culture to inform the public of what the Ministry of Culture has recently been exposed to in a planned plan to eradicate the architectural heritage of Beirut by demolishing heritage buildings without the approval of the Ministry of Culture. Ministry of Culture, according to the administrative rules. And legal, the same at Jacob's.

Yesterday, the owner of a heritage building located in the real estate district of Achrafieh demolished it without the approval of the Ministry of Culture, or even the &,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. informed, so that he could not stop it or freeze it, noting that this was not the case. Lula receives support from a state representative responsible for protecting Beirut's heritage buildings and preserving the facade of its architectural heritage, not the reverse.

Therefore, the Minister of Culture is the owner of the property that was demolished and officials who allowed him to achieve his goals, by the way of justice, and to obtain harsh sentences, condemns all the Salt itself to alter the cultural heritage or to underestimate the powers of the Ministry of Culture and its minister, especially the leader The first, who authorized the demolition of the building, who was working hard to demolish another building heritage, in the same stealth, in the same sector, and today, on the basis of false pretenses sly and healthy, reflects his refusal to respond, at the express request of the Minister of Culture, to freeze the license of demolition. Temporarily, in order not to allow the ministry to return He studied the entire file and prevented the demolition of the building in the case of heritage, where the responsible concerned sent his response to refuse to respond to the request of the Minister of Culture in the last hours last Friday, in order to try to miss the opportunity to the Minister of Culture to respond, or even He was able to take measures to freeze the demolition permit and , in order to grant his decision the executive formula, in order to allow the owner to demolish it during the weekend and at the holidays of Eid al-Adha, despite his certainty, that it is not Was not likely to decide to demolish the heritage buildings and that it was his duty to go back. At the Ministry of Culture, all related to this case.

For these reasons, among others, the Minister of Culture and the Public Prosecutor's Office, with regard to the preservation of public funds, including heritage buildings, will ask them to consider the aforementioned information, which requires an investigation by the owners of the building already demolished and with whom it is necessary. The Minister of Culture will ask the prosecution to make the decision to put the complaint to the news of the newspaper. In kind belonging to the property, which has been demolished In order to preserve the reputation and rights of the state, the Minister of Culture will ask the Ministry of the Interior to inform the people called to proceed , especially the Judicial Police, not to allow property owners in Beirut, especially heritage buildings, to demolish their buildings until after. Get a decision from the Ministry of Culture, fast and modern according to established rules. "