Can Lebanon’s former president Michel Aoun be prosecuted over Beirut port blast?

The former Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, filed a complaint on Wednesday with the Cassation Public Prosecutor’s Office, following news reports on Tuesday that a prosecution memorandum sought his indictment over the devastating explosion at Beirut’s port in August 2020. Aoun’s lawyer, Wadih Akl, said the complaint targeted “unknown persons and anyone identified by the investigation” for crimes including defamation, slander, fabrication, disparagement, disclosure of investigative secrecy and spr

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