Interpol has issued red notices for the captain and owner of the ship that carried the chemicals which devastated both Beirut’s port and large swathes of the city in an explosion in August, killing 200 people, Lebanon’s state media reported.
With a country in turmoil, from the combined effects of serious financial mismanagement, political crises that led to the resignation en-masse of the entire government, sectarian disagreements that continue to make governance difficult, one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks in the Middle East and the fallout from one of the largest non-nuclear explosions on record, significant questions remain.
The Interpol notices, which are not international arrest warrants, ask authorities worldwide to provisionally detain people pending possible extradition or other legal actions. Interpol issues them at the request of a member country.
State news agency NNA said on Tuesday that Interpol also issued a notice for a Portuguese trader who examined the cargo at Beirut port in 2014, without giving a name or further details.
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{Matzav.com}
