Judge Tarek Bitar resumed a long-frozen investigation into the 2020 disaster, which killed over 200 but was immediately blocked by Lebanese judicial authorities and detained for “usurping power."
Lebanon's chief prosecutor has charged the judicial investigator of the Beirut Port blast case with "rebelling against the judiciary."
No senior official has yet been held to account for the explosion that killed 220 people.
Lebanon has yet to prosecute, or investigate, those responsible for the blast that killed 220 people two years ago
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