Questioning Session Set for Othman as Mustaqbal Lashes Anew at Aoun
Judge Nicolas Mansour on Wednesday scheduled a session for the interrogation of Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Imad Othman in the lawsuit filed against him by Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun, LBCI TV reported.
The TV network said Othman has been informed of the date through the Interior Ministry and that Mansour has also asked the Directorate General of State Security to provide him with information about what happened with its patrol when it headed to Central Bank chief Riad Salameh’s house on Tuesday.
Judge Aoun’s lawsuit accuses Othman of “preventing a security patrol from enforcing a subpoena” she had issued against Salameh.
Al-Mustaqbal Movement meanwhile issued a new statement in which it blamed President Michel Aoun for the judge’s measures against both Salameh and Othman.
Accusing Aoun of “taking part in the Free Patriotic Movement’s battles” and “undermining legitimate state institutions,” Mustaqbal added that Aoun has founded for his political movement “a private Justice Palace led by Ghada Aoun.”
“Targeting the ISF’s command after Banque du Liban’s governorship in this blatant and suspicious manner is something rejected in all standards, especially that it comes after the announcement of major achievements for the ISF’s command in busting sabotage and terrorism networks and arresting kidnap, robbery and smuggling gangs,” the Movement added.
“Judge Aoun is not acting on her own and the Lebanese must search for the masterminds who are plunging the country into further chaos in the halls of the palace in which General Aoun resides,” Mustaqbal went on to say, while stressing that “the attempt to target Maj. Gen. Imad Othman shall not pass, no matter how much they rally their forces.”
Source: Naharnet
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