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Rahi: Political Class Controls Part of Lebanon’s Judiciary

Patriarch Bechara Rahi during Sunday’s mass (NNA)

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rahi on Sunday lashed out at Lebanon’s judiciary, which he said is partly controlled by the political class and is therefore a tool used by statesmen to act against justice.

“There is increasing suspicions around Lebanon’s judicial activities,” Rahi said during Sunday’s mass sermon about the delay in the investigation into the 2020 explosion of the port of Beirut.

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