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 khazen.org congratulate court decision for sentencing the criminal and terrorist Habib Shartouni and Nabil Al Alam to death.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s top court on Friday sentenced Habib Shartouni to death for the 1982 assassination of president-elect Bashir Gemayel, an event that was a turning point in Lebanon’s 15-year civil war. Shartouni, a member of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party (SSNP), admitted his part in the bombing in the 1980s and was tried in absentia after escaping from prison in 1990 following eight years in detention.

The Judicial Council, Lebanon’s highest state security court, on Friday sentenced Habib Chartouni and Nabil al-Alam to death in absentia in the case of the 1982 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel. The Council also stripped Syrian Social National Party members Chartouni and Alam of their civil rights. The in absentia trial had kicked off on November 25, 2016. During that session, the Judicial Council called on Chartouni — who confessed to planting the bomb before escaping prison — to turn himself in. It also decided to launch in absentia proceedings against the other suspect in the case, al-Alam, after media reports said he had died of illness in Brazil in 2014.

L’orient-lejour –Le 14 septembre 1982, Bachir Gemayel, élu président de la République 22 jours plus tôt, est assassiné peu après 16 heures dans une explosion qui détruit les locaux de la permanence du parti Kataëb dans le quartier beyrouthin d’Achrafieh. L’attentat coûte la vie au fondateur des Forces libanaises et à 32 autres personnes.   Vendredi 20 octobre 2017, la Cour de justice, présidée par Jean Fahd, condamne à mort Habib Chartouni, militant du Parti syrien national social (PSNS, pro-Assad), et Nabil Alam, ancien haut responsable du PSNS, pour l’organisation et l’exécution de cet assassinat.Retour, 35 ans après sa mort, sur la vie de Cheikh Bachir, dont l’héritage politique perdure jusqu’à aujourd’hui.