26-04-2024 08:08 PM Jerusalem Timing

Lebanon: Capital Punishment Demanded for Nine Accused of Maamoura Car Bomb

Lebanon: Capital Punishment Demanded for Nine Accused of Maamoura Car Bomb

Investigative Military Judge, Fadi Sawan, on Tuesday urged capital punishment for 9 people including 2 detained on charges of setting a booby-trapped Cherokee car at Maamoura region in the southern suburb of Beirut (Dahiyeh).

Investigative Military Judge, Fadi Sawan, on Tuesday urged capital punishment for 9 people including 2 detained on charges of setting a booby-trapped Cherokee car at Maamoura region in the southern suburb of Beirut Maamoura Car Bomb(Dahiyeh).

He issued arrest warrants against them.

Search and investigate warrants were issued against four of the suspects to uncover their identity.

They were named as Abu Malek, Bilal, Abu Mohammed Amin, and Mohammed Amin.

The two detained suspects have been identified as M.N.A., who was arrested on October 28, and Mohammed Sobh Ozamir, a Turkish national who was arrested on October 25.

The suspects at large are Ahmed Abdullah al-Atrash, Sameh Mahmoud Sultan, also known as Sameh al-Breidy, Sami Ahmed al-Atrash, also known as Dadouh, Iraqi explosives expert Abdullah Mohammed al-Qalei, also known as Abu Abdullah, Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hujairi, Ibrahim Qassem al-Atrash, and Syrian Hassan Mohammed al-Maarawi.

Sawan referred the case to the permanent military court.

It is to note that the car was found and the bomb was dismantled on 14/10/2013 before it exploded.