French Libération Newspaper Leaks: Indictment Accusing Hizbullah Based on Telecom. Network Information

Local Editor

The media leaks concerning the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's (STL) indictment expected to be issued accusing Hizbullah of former PM Rafiq Hariri's assassination, have been accumulating.

As the previous leaks by the Canadian CBC report, the German Der Spiegel newspaper, and the French Le Figaro, another French newspaper, Libération, confirmed what previous media outlets published, that the STL indictment will accuse rogue elements of Hizbullah of Rafiq Hariri's assassination.

The French newspaper also added that the indictment will rely on the mobile phone network, which was monitored by General Wissam Eid, who revealed, according to the newspaper, that a certain team, whose members never used their mobile phones unless for contacting each other, was after the late PM for weeks.

The Libération added in a report by journalist Jean Pierre Biran, expert in Lebanese affairs, that some phone number were followed up in four other assaults following Rafiq Hariri's, from these are the explosives that led to the assassination of journalist Samir Kasir, and former Communist Secretary General George Hawi.

Concerning the period following the indictment's issuance, the newspaper expects that it would be more dangerous, further adding that people should wait for what could cause a political shake within the Lebanese politics.

By the end of its report, the newspaper said that even if the investigation led to the identity of those who conducted the assassination, yet there will remain to reveal the identity of those who ordered it.
In this context, the Libération referred that this event is very important, thus Damascus and Tehran can't not know anything of it, in a slight sign to accuse Syria and Iran of being involved in the assassination.

On the other hand, the French newspaper commented on the Syrian-Saudi efforts, saying that they are aiming at containing the repercussions of the indictment that could negatively affect the Lebanese government.

In the editorial of the same issue of the Libération newspaper in which the said report was published, Francois Sergent commented on the International law and Justice, and their relation with peace.

In his editorial, Sergent wondered whether the international tribunals set by the international community could threat the weak countries that are witnessing division in their entities.

The journalist also considered that the Lebanese are skeptical of what stands accountable to all the assassinations in Lebanon, but they want to know the urge of this thirst to justice, at the time when thousands of crimes occurred in their countries and remained without penalty.

Francois Sergent shed the light on the "Israeli" neighbor, which is loose from any penalty even after the war on Gaza, referring that if the international judiciary seeks to be serious, then it should try all crimes without any discrimination, then people will understand that peace cannot be achieved without justice.