Sayyed Requested to Appear Before French Court in Case against Mehlis
Former detainee Brig. Gen. Jamil Sayyed has been requested to appear before a French court in the case filed against ex-chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis.
The daily As Safir on Wednesday said Sayyed”s lawyers have received a written request from France asking him to appear before court June 4.
Meanwhile, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told An Nahar newspaper that the release of the four officers — Sayyed one of them — "is not an excuse to attack the judiciary."
He said the decision by the international tribunal to release the generals was independent of the Lebanese judiciary, stressing that it "should not be used as a pretext to "expose the Lebanese judiciary to any risks."
Sayyed, former security services director as well as former head of the presidential guard, Mustafa Hamdan, security chief Ali Hajj, and military intelligence chief Raymond Azar were released April 29 from nearly four years in custody in Lebanon without charge.