Lebanon's judiciary is seeking to appoint a second judge to a stalled inquiry into the Beirut port explosion, sources inside the judiciary say, highlighting deep divisions in the country's political class over efforts to investigate the tragedy that killed more than 200 people, including a two-year-old Australian boy.
Judge Tarek Bitar's investigation into the 2020 explosion, which flattened large parts of the city when hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate detonated at the port, has been suspended since late 2021 due to lawsuits brought by politicians he has sought to question.
