Geagea said: “If the commissioner of Hezbollah at the military court (the government’s commissioner at the military court), asked to listen to me, then he should listen to Hezbollah’s Secretary General (Hassan Nasrallah) before me.”
Informed sources told Reuters that the Lebanese military court will request the statement of the leader of the Lebanese Forces party about the clashes that erupted last week in Beirut.
The sources said: “The government commissioner to the military court, Judge Fadi Akiki, gave a signal to listen to the testimony of the head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, in the Tayouneh file, against the background of the confessions made by the detainees in this file… Judge Akiki’s reference requires that Geagea be heard before him. in the military court.
Geagea denied his group had any fighters and rejected Hezbollah’s accusations that he had formed an armed force.
The heavily armed Iran-backed Hezbollah accused the Lebanese Forces of perpetrating the violence. Geagea again denied any role for his group in this.
“We don’t have fighters,” Geagea said. He added that the confrontation with Hezbollah is political, not military. He continued: “Frankly, Hezbollah has one goal now, which is to stop the investigation of the port… Hezbollah, with its actions since 2005, is the biggest threat to all Lebanese.”
Geagea also denied accusations made by Nasrallah, last Monday, that the Lebanese forces want a civil war.
“It was a poisoned gift, full of fallacies and rumors that have no basis in truth,” he said of Nasrallah’s speech.
The shooting began when supporters of Hezbollah and its ally, the Amal movement, gathered for a demonstration called against the chief investigator in the investigation of the bloody explosion in the port of Beirut.
Hezbollah accused the Lebanese forces of setting up an ambush. The Lebanese Forces, which are staunchly opposed to Hezbollah, deny any role.
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