Families of the ten firefighters killed in the Beirut blast of August 4, 2020 organized a press conference to mark two months since this tragedy.
Lawyer (or “Maître”) Imad Martinos attended this press conference, representing the head of the Beirut Bar Association (Mr. Melhem Khalaf).
Here are some of the pending questions and demands of the families, as reported by Naharnet.
Bambi allowed herself to highlight some of the key demands.
Is anyone listening in the *mafia-militia club* governing Lebanon?
– To have an emergency parliament session to lift immunity off all ministers and politicians involved in this file.
– To declare “August 4 a national mourning day”.
– To question “all the” involved “ministers since 2014 to date and anyone linked to the “Hangar # 12” file as of the date of unloading the cargo in it”.
– To publish “all the reports submitted by international crews and foreign security agencies regarding the Beirut port blast”.
– To declassify “the investigation and briefing the families of the victims on all the developments that have not been disclosed to the public opinion“.
– To expand “the investigation to become an international investigation”.
– To clarify “the reasons behind the disappearance of all previous reports related to the dangerous substances that were stored inside Hangar # 12” and “behind silencing anyone who tried to tackle the file (resignations, sacking, death…)”.
– To unveil “the reason behind the total absence of the Beirut Port Fire Brigade, especially when the first fire erupted, around 40 minutes prior to the blast”.
– To unveil “the identity of the judge who ordered the unloading of the cargo from the ship into “Hangar # 12” and to clarify why he is yet to be identified and summoned to interrogation”.
– To clarify reports that “said members of a political party had entered the port’s premises in the first two days after the explosion and the reason behind their entry”.
