Judicial Council Begins in Absentia Trial in Bashir Gemayel Case, Asks Chartouni to Turn Himself in
The Judicial Council, the Lebanese court that handles cases related to national security, launched Friday an in absentia trial in the case of the 1982 assassination of president-elect Bashir Gemayel, calling on Habib Chartouni -- who confessed to planting the bomb before escaping prison -- to turn himself in.
“The Council has decided to issue an ultimatum asking the accused Habib Chartouni to turn himself in within 24 hours at the latest from the March 3, 2017 trial session,” the Council said in a statement.
It also decided to launch an “in absentia trial” and to ask the Directorate General of Personal Status to verify whether a death certificate has been issued for Nabil al-Alam, the other main suspect in the case who reportedly died in 2014.
The Council also ordered the General Directorate of General Security to probe Alam's alleged death.
Gemayel was a senior member of the Kataeb Party and the supreme commander of the Lebanese Forces militia during the early years of the civil war.
He was elected president on August 23, 1982 while the country was torn by civil war and occupied by both Israel and Syria.
Gemayel was assassinated on September 14, 1982, along with 26 others, when a bomb exploded in Kataeb's headquarters in Ashrafieh.
Chartouni, a member of the Syrian Social National Party, was later arrested in connection with the assassination. His sister was a resident of the apartment above the room Bachir was in. He had visited her the previous day and planted the bomb in her apartment.
The next day, he called her and told her to get out of the building. Once she was out, he detonated the bomb from a few kilometers away from the building.
Two days later Chartouni was arrested by the Lebanese Forces. At a press conference before being handed over to the Lebanese judiciary by the LF, he called Gemayel a traitor and accused him of “selling the country to Israel.”
He said he was given the explosives and the fancy long-range electronic detonator in West Beirut’s Ras Beirut district by Nabil al-Alam, who was reportedly SSNP's intelligence chief at the time.
Alam reportedly had close ties to the Syrian intelligence services and he swiftly fled to Syria after the assassination.
Chartouni spent eight years in Roumieh Prison without an official trial until he escaped on October 13, 1990 during the Syrian offensive to oust Michel Aoun from the Baabda Palace.
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People should not forget, that many Lebanese to this day and also among the Christians recognize Habib Shartouni as a national hero.
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People also should not forget, that many Lebanese to this day also among the Shiites recognize Saad Haddad as a national hero because they say he did what he had to do to protect their towns from the PLO terrorists and people should not forget, that many Lebanese to this day and also among the Christians believe that Lebanon legitimately should be part of a Greater Syria, your point?
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please do not forget that the overwhelming majority of Lebanese and also among Christians consider anyone who assassinates nassrallah a National Hero.
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Come to Lebanon and say that, and you will see what happens.
See if your "majority" is with you.
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I am in Lebanon ya iraní, show me what you will do except bark like you usually do on the net.
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Very nice tough guy, you seem like a real rough internet-warrior, now I must yield and give up to your hard talk on Annahar.
Lebanon, Pennsylvania does not count as Lebanon by the way.
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"Chartouni spent eight years in Roumieh Prison" that's already eight years more than he should have. the guy is a hero.
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_mowaten_ I'm not a big poster here but I have been using this site for over 48 years and recently I have been liking your posts, you're the only one informing and schooling these deluded ignorants. :)
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"Chartouni, a member of the Syrian Social National Party, was later arrested in connection with the assassination."
Yet bassil and the fpm insist on having the SSNP represented in the cabinet.
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When the 2awmiyeh meet they salute by saying : "Ta7ya Suryah"...
Imbassil has no problems to ally with traitors.
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The "Suryah" they mean is the "Hilal al khasseeb" which englobes Lebanon as part of Suryah.
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What is the Hakim doing?????????????
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What a better way to regain Christian rights by "ministerizing" Bashir's killers.
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Time lag...
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in case you are deaf, I have something better than video:
"we want the Marada (Movement), the Kataeb (Party), the Syrian Social National Party, the non-Mustaqbal Sunni forces and MP Talal Arslan to be represented, even in a 24-member cabinet,” Bassil emphasized."
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/220859-bassil-all-parties-can-be-represented-in-24-member-govt-minor-details-delaying-line-up
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so flamethrower you were denying that bassil wants the SSNP the murderers of Bashir to be represented in the government. When @ex-fpm provided you with Bassil's own words, you resorted to some convoluted BS that only you can produce.
what a troll !!!!
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Bassil is part of a cabinet that has resigned yet he is still "vacationing" in the Caribbean !
زار وزير الخارجية والمغتربين في حكومة تصريف الأعمال جبران باسيل، في زيارة هي الاولى لوزير خارجية لبناني الى جمهورية الدومينيكان وفي محطته الثانية خلال جولته في جزر الكاريبي واميركا اللاتينية،
http://www.lebanese-forces.com/2016/11/26/gebran-bassil-dominican-republic/
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flametroller, your posts are neither clever, nor constructive, so if you have nothing worth saying, just read silently or alternatively you can choke (:
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SSNP are the same as Hezbollah, they pleaded allegiance to the foreign state before believing in Lebanon existance. The very same government that killed Bachir, ordered killing unarmed Lebanese citizens in front of the Iranian embassy.
around 60 years ago, if the Lebanese government has made a decision and/or disagreed with its Syrian counterpart, the Syrian used to close the borders in retaliation to destabilize our exporting economy. They Syrian regime does not want mutual friendship with Lebanon, history speaks for itself.
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Pleaded=pledge
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So many years later.... did they learn something at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and now want to show off at the expense of a proper investigation...
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بعد 3 عقود من الزمن أول جلسة محاكمة في اغتيال بشير الجميل - وبالامس عشاءً لدعم الشرتوني بغطاء من حزبالله
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Ebola is doing everything to divide this country...a goal to "divide and rule" ...and create an islamic republic.
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Someone stupid guy said above that if there are partisans of a party in Lebanon then this party becomes legitimate and should be accepted on the basis of democracy...
So...after a party of Iran and a party of Syria lets us have a party of Saudi Arabia, a party of Daech, a party of Israel...
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Some are upset by the remarks calling the people who are loyal to Iran or Syria or Israel as traitors...
Of course they are whether they like it or not, whether they are conscient of it or not....
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Another reality is that these people are destroying the country by destroying the living together...
They have already done immense harm to conviviality andwe are not willing at all to live under an Iranian model...they can keep this backaged model for themselves...
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We want our Lebanon to look like Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, or Canada...
You can keep your model for yourself and remain in the stone age for another thousand years.
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Long live terro : a great patriot who always tell the truth with Norma Jean.
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you mean like you, mowaten and the_roar are the same filthy troll?
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My sons brasil and lablab what's wrong with you!! We pay you the top IRRs so you log onto naharmret and pass for Christians of the Sayyed Michel Aoun persuasion. Those guys are crazy pro the traitor Rabbi Bashir Gemayel. So your attack should be pointed towards anyone who disrespects the traitor even if he is a fellow Jihadi. For example you did not reply to brother Mystic who surely tells the divine truth but any true Christian of the Sayyed Michel Aoun persuasion would come at him with a furious expletives laced reply. But from you guys nothing. Same with brother flames who as a pretend Christian tries to be witty instead of criticizing the resistance for sponsoring the pro-Chartouni dinner in Dahieh. You should learn from brothers mouwaten and southern who have many successful pretend Christian accounts. Next time I find you slacking off like this I will cut your pays.
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AIII!! My private message to brothers brasil and lablab was posted in the general forum again I cannot believe this! I though that Hajj Patel has fixed it! Dammit.
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The previous message should be viewed only by brother brasil. It was posted here publicly by Zionist hackers. Please in the name of the cumming Mahdi I order you not to read this.. well everyone except brother brasil that is.
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:الشيخ أحمد شلاش عضو مجلس الشعب السوري و مقرّب من رئيسه بشار الأسد يهدّدعون
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يبدو أن ميشال عون، بدأ بإستدارة جديدة لا نعرف وجهتها ولا نريد له أن يقدم عليها. لا تنسى يا فخامة الرئيس عون بأن سوريا عرين الأسود تحمي الحلفاء وتدمّر الأعداء، واليوم ما زلنا نعتبرك من الحلفاء. اللعب مع الأسود خطير وأنظر إلى مصير مرتكبي القرار 1559 وخذ العبر وقد أعذر من أنذر
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They are right: they brought him from exile, they gave him millions, they made him president...how can he escape???
As the US Declaration of Independence says, if the government is tyrannical, the people have the right to change it. Lebanon's government is based on Article 24 of the Constitution which reserves half of Parliament to Christians. It wouldn't matter if Christians were ninety percent of the population or the actual quarter. Arbitrary government is bad government, tyrannical despite its best intentions. People don't like being told what to do. "He who governs least, governs best," Thomas Jefferson, who even knew, in theory, the cost of his own slave-holding: "slavery, make no mistake about it, is based on intimidation."