Is military justice a gateway to the government?

Youssef Diab wrote in the newspaper "Middle East" under the title "of a political settlement that puts tension in the mountains under the custody of the Lebanese military justice" and said: The record of the investigation into The Qabrshmoun incident in Mount Lebanon, announced yesterday: On June 30, escorts of the State Minister for Displaced Affairs, Saleh al-Gharib, and supporters of the Progressive Socialist Party, resulted in death two of the unknown companions, members of the Lebanese Democratic Party, led by MP Talal Arslan.

Arslan, who had previously rejected this proposal, wants to refer the case to the Justice Council, which is behind Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement. Contacts and meetings continued on more than one line to overcome the repercussions of the incident, President Saad Hariri insists on holding a session this week after three weeks of absence.

The Acting Attorney General, Imad Qablan, did not specify the reasons why the case was referred to a military court and not to a court of law, especially since the problem did not concern the staff. military and that there had been no military casualties. In the internal security forces and in the statements of detainees and witnesses, Judge Qablan considered referring them to military justice. "

He explained that the discriminatory attitude of the Attorney General "handed over to the military prosecutor's office records the preliminary investigations with documents containing video recordings, videos and the contents of the surveillance cameras seized on the scene, as well as confessions of the detainees and witnesses ". He pointed out that "four detainees (members of the Socialist Party who handed them over to the security services) were returned to the file". The judicial source said that "the survey contains a list of a large number of people (the Progressive Socialist Party and the Lebanese Democratic Party, the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party), who will be called to investigate after the prosecution. ".

This referral is an alternative to Arslan's request to refer the case to the Justice Council and is supposed to be a contribution to the end of the disintegration of the government. Follow-up sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that "what happened is from the colony prepared by the Director General of General Security, President Michel Aoun facilitated understanding of Hezbollah with Arslan and in coordination with the Prime Minister, who facilitated the birth of this director with the leader of the Socialist Party, former MP Walid Jumblatt, who demanded that he be referred to the judicial system.

The judicial source called for a "separation between the referral decision to a military court and the request for referral to the Council of Justice". He considered that this step "does not suggest that the Judicial Council will be included in the file at a later stage". He said: "If the Council of Ministers believes that the Qabrishmoun incident would endanger the internal security of the state and threaten civil peace, the Council of Ministers could issue a decree to send it back to the Council. of the judiciary.
According to ministerial sources to Asharq Al Awsat, after the information division had completed its investigation, the acting Attorney General's Office had forwarded the file to the military commissioner, Judge Peter Germanus, who would probably refer to the trial judge, Fadi Sawan. More than four days after the arrest of four people of the Progressive Socialist Party, "making the continuation of their arrest a violation of the law".
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