Charbel: Gov’t Isn’t Entitled to Act on STL Warrants
Lebanese Interior Minister Marwan Charbel reiterated that the government was not entitled to act on the arrest warrants issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
In remarks to "al-Joumhouria" Lebanese newspaper Monday, Charbel said: "The protocol signed between Lebanon and the international tribunal states that judicial police would carry out the necessary investigation to arrest the suspects."
"Politics has nothing to do with it, however the Lebanese judicial authorities were cooperating with the tribunal to find the suspects," he added.
Stressing that the general prosecutor was exerting all efforts to find the four suspects against who arrest warrants were issued by the STL, Charbel explained that "If the authorities weren't able to arrest the suspects, this doesn't mean that Lebanon did not cooperate."
Asked about the seven Estonian tourists who were abducted in the Bekaa valley in March, Charbel confirmed that Lebanese authorities were following up the case but with total secrecy.
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