On the occasion of Mother’s Day, women marched next to the area where the explosion had occurred. Of course, they were the mothers of victims who perished on August 4. They held up high banners, which called on the political elite to surrender power.

MASS Depression

Months after the explosion, all forms of investigation seem to be restarting from square one, to say the least. Beleaguered with an unstoppable pandemic, a broken economy, and a corrupt political system, Lebanese haven’t ever been so depressed in history.

7 months after of the Beirut explosion, another person falls victim to the after effects of the event. 57-year-old Ardem, as told by his cousin Sanahine Kassabian, had his house devastated. He lost the pet shop he owned in Gemmayzé located just meters away from the port. This left him “mentally and emotionally broken. He couldn’t eat, sleep nor talk,” explained Kassabian.

In a main news item presented by a Tunisian media agency, it suggested that the materials that caused the explosion at the Beirut port on the fourth of last August came from Tunisia. Due to the disappearance of a very significant amount of "ammonium" from the chemical complex in the Governorate of Gabes (southern Tunisia) between 2013 and 2019, such a correlation can be built.

“Hoy nos han vuelto a matar…”

En un reciente giro de los acontecimientos, el juez Fadi Sawan fue apartado de la investigación de la explosión de Beirut por razones absurdas.

Alguien o alguna entidad quería apartarlo de la investigación y, en consecuencia, fue sustituido por el juez Tarek El Bitar.

“Today you have killed us all over again!...”

In a recent turn of events, Judge Fadi Sawan was removed from the investigation of Beirut Blast due to absurd reasons. Someone or some entity wanted him off the investigation and as a result, he was replaced by Judge Tarek El Bitar. Families of the victims were devastated by this news as this showed that the state would never hold the powerful to account.

As a storm draws near, to usher in low temperatures and ice of formations, many are still without a home after the Beirut explosion. To make things worse, a protracted economic crisis is causing a rise in poverty, high unemployment and massive inflation, diminishing their ability to find a solution.

Luqman Salim, a victim of the ongoing corruption in Lebanon

The German company “Combi Lift” which was tasked with disposing of chemicals in Beirut Port after the explosion that occurred on August 4, revealed that what it found there was a "second Beirut bomb."

Mientras las terribles condiciones socioeconómicas se apoderan del país, las víctimas de la explosión de Beirut siguen siendo las más afectadas. El Consejo Noruego para los Refugiados advirtió en un comunicado en su página web, de una nueva oleada de personas sin hogar, 6 meses después de la explosión de Beirut.

As dire socioeconomic conditions grip the country, victims of the Beirut blast are still being affected the most. The Norwegian Refugee Council warned in a statement on its website, of a new wave of homeless people, 6 months after the Beirut explosion.

When comes to finding the truth, Lebanon is not the only country to suffer from red tape. Two senior British parliamentarians called for an investigation into a British-registered company probably related to the Beirut blast. They called upon UK authorities to investigate it, given inaccurate information appears to have been filed.

Recently, the Interpol issued three international arrest notices or “Red Notices” for the owner and captain of a ship that brought 2,750 tons of explosive material. Those named are Borys Prokoshew who is the captain of the ship and Igor Grechushkin, a Russian businessman and apparent owner of the MV Rhosus that brought the ammonium nitrate into Beirut in late 2013.

After being barred from continuing the Beirut blast investigation, Judge Fadi Sawan was allowed to resume with questioning the country’s officials and civil servants as part of the probe into the Beirut Port explosion.

A glimpse of hope in the beginning of the year

Recently, the FBI released a report claiming that only 500 tons of Ammonium Nitrate had exploded, negating earlier claims that 2700 tons of the substance was responsible for all the damages in Beirut.

En otra actualización reciente relativa a la explosión de Beirut, Fadi Sawan, el investigador judicial asignado al caso de Beirut, fue suspendido de las investigaciones ya que dos ex-ministros acusados de negligencia, presentaron una demanda solicitando que el caso fuera transferido a otro juez.

In another recent update concerning the Beirut blast, Fadi Sawan, the judicial investigator assigned for the Beirut case, was suspended from the investigations as two former ministers, who were accused of negligence, submitted a demand requesting that the case should be transferred to another judge.

Nuevas ayudas para los indigentes y los afectados

En una última actualización del caso de la explosión de Beirut, el Primer Ministro provisional Hassan Diab, se negó a ser interrogado por un juez que lo acusó a él y a tres ex-ministros de negligencia en relación con la explosión.

New aids for the homeless & the affected

In a latest update on the Beirut Blast case, Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab, refused to be questioned by a judge who accused him and three former ministers of negligence in connection with the explosion.

The judge Fadi Sawwan investigating the Beirut port explosion has charged Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers (former finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil, public works ministers Ghazi Zeaiter and Youssef Finianos) with negligence which led to the devastating event in which 200 people were killed and swathes of buildings left in ruins.

El Presidente francés Emmanuel Macron y el Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas Antonio Guterres presidieron el miércoles 2 de diciembre una conferencia internacional virtual para «apoyar al pueblo libanés», cuatro meses después de la devastadora explosión en el puerto de Beirut.