Geagea sues over location of mass graves

Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea has filed a lawsuit against former MP Nasser Qandil, a judicial report said on Thursday. Following a visit to Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun last week, Qandil accused Geagea of knowing the locations of mass graves from the 1975-1990 Civil War.

 

Geagea called for launching an investigation against Qandil and for putting him on trial. He also demanded some 10 billion LL, almost $7 million, to be paid in damages. “The locations of mass graves are secrets known only by Qandil”s allies,” the LF”s media section said in a statement. Efforts to locate a mass grave north reported north of Beirut last week failed, and police questioned several people suspected of having deliberately misled investigators.