FILE PHOTO: Army soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint a day after gunfire erupted in an attack on protesters who were heading for a demonstration called by Hezbollah to demand the removal of the judge investigating last year’s port explosion, in Beirut, Lebanon October 15, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
October 21, 2021
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Lebanese military court will ask Lebanese Forces (LF) party leader Samir Geagea to give a statement about last week’s Beirut street violence, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
Geagea, who was due to appear shortly on a local television show, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The bloodshed was the worst Lebanon had seen in over a decade and the Iran-backed Shi’ite Hezbollah group has accused LF of being responsible for it, a charge denied by Geagea.
(This story was refiled to fix spelling of Lebanese in headline)
(Reporting By Laila Bassam, writing by Maha El Dahan, editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: One America News Network
