NNA - Lebanese Forces Party Chief Samir Geagea announced, in a statement on Thursday, "Another crime is being committed against the martyrs and victims of the Beirut port blast through trying to obstruct the investigation by appointing an alternate investigator in the same case.”

“No matter what labels and justifications are made, what is happening is the peak of insolence and disregard for people's lives, pain, feelings, property and livelihoods,” Geagea added in his statement.

“What the Covenant and its allies are trying to do through 'their' Minister of Justice is a moral heresy in the first place and a legal heresy in the second.” Geagea said.

“Fifty very difficult days await us, but we have never succumbed to any difficulties whatsoever, and we will continue with all legal, legitimate and possible means not to let the Covenant and its allies manipulate the crime of the explosion of the port of Beirut,” Geagea concluded.

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