We are not writing so as to fire back at a culprit who reared into a jail cell that, despite refinements, is starved for freedom.
We write as we face in dumbstruck belief yet another scene of the government’s degenerative chapters, where one high ranking official can easily forces his laws and best interests upon others.
The four and half-year verdict in the case of Former Minister Michel Samaha was a shock to his rivals as and his debilitated allies, at least on the surface, from arguing in favor of the verdict.
The man has made an unforgivable error: He didn’t slightly mix politics and security strategies; he went overboard as to delineate from freedom of political expression and became a freewheeling terror zealot belted in explosives which surely weren't intended to tinsel Khinchara skies on its’ Saint Patron’s day.
It’s rarely the case, even if we were to rise above our denigration, to witness a political intervention against such a verdict.
The political intervention once felt in several causes was always overshadowed by political, sectarian and electoral interests on account of national welfare and indictment of the perpetrators and wrongdoers.
The same pattern applies to the case of Samer Hanna’s killer. This was the case with Shadi al-Mawlawi who got out of jail in a minister’s car and landed the Prime Minister’s focal attention before turning once more into a fugitive terrorist, seeking shelter in Ain el Helweh camp.
Come to think about it, big and small cases have always been riddled with this erroneous conduct, forever assuring us that we belong on an animal farm, not in a dignified state that enforces the law and punishes criminals.
Samaha’s verdict is sure to make the rounds in the upcoming days. Judiciary procedures will be taken accordingly as justice minister promised yesterday. Both the prosecution and the defense team will seek an appeal; nonetheless, the verdict might change, he might even get a lighter sentence.
Those who have suffered the unjust rule issued against a criminal who was thwarted from exhausting countless lives, can only wish he had been under the influence of narcotics when he was arrested, he would’ve then definitely lamented the result of his confessions.
An article originally written in Arabic by Dany Haddad.
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