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 Commenting on the statement issued by the STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare in response to the televised speech of Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on June 2, Hezbollah issued the following statement:“We were not surprised by the prosecutor’s response to the compelling evidences submitted by his eminence Sayyed Nasrallah about the major gaps affecting the credibility of this Court and its staff,” the statement read. Hezbollah remarked that Bellemare’s statement has been generally formulated, without touching any of the presented evidences, where the STL prosecutor couldn’t deny any of the hard facts cited by his eminence Sayyed Nasrallah.   The statement cited several points of failure committed by Bellemare in clarifying the STL stance, starting from working personally to resolve Mohammad Zoheir al-Siddiq’s situation with the Interpol, and refusing to investigate the subject of a possible Israeli involvement in the assassination.Hezbollah considered in his statement that Bellemare not only ignored the four officers’ imprisonment and the injustice they have suffered for years without getting the necessary moral compensation, but he also didn’t deny the computers which had been transferred through the occupied Palestine.  The STL prosecutor "ignored as well the fled collaborators who were present at the assassination theatre, of whom Ghassan al-Jedd at least was identified."Hezbollah believed that Bellemare omitted mentioning the CIA agent Robert Baer along with his role in the investigation and in Court; as well as other investigators of the intelligence services, who are waging hostility openly to the Resistance. “Bellemare’s silence on these issues reveals the size of the erosion affecting the credibility of Court, and the weakness that hits its moral basis,” Hezbollah’s statement added. “As for speaking on the full commitment to the highest international standards, we believe it does not fool a sane; only if the international standards that Bellemare is talking about are those that legitimate the logic of jungle, and shade the justice by the right of force, not by the force of right," the statment concluded. |
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 Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare responded on Monday to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s speech last Saturday, claiming that the investigations into the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri was based on “credible evidence”.“The investigation is carried out according to the highest standards of international justice and its results are based solely on facts and credible evidence,” Bellemare said in a statement issued by his office. Sayyed Nasrallah on Saturday rejected the so-called indictment, dismissing it as unfounded and a failed attempt to sow strife and bring down Lebanon's new government. His eminence also displayed different video documents, proving that the tribunal was politicized. Last Thursday a STL delegation handed over the indictment to Lebanese General Prosecutor Judge Said Mirza. “The staff of the OTP [Office of the Prosecutor] act independently and in good faith in their search for the truth,” Bellemare said. “The staff of the OTP has been recruited on the basis of their professionalism, impartiality and expertise, and I have full confidence in their strong commitment to finding the truth,” he added. On the other hand, the Prosecutor also said he welcomed Sayyed Nasrallah’s “offer to provide the file that he stated he has on some elements of the investigation.” Bellemare requested the video material that was shown on Saturday during Sayyed Nasrallah’s speech, as well as “any other information that would assist the STL in its ongoing pursuit of justice.” Before Mirza-tribunal delegation’s meeting on Thursday was over, March 14 media started leaking the indictment’s content, including names of the accused. |
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