Riot police in Beirut have cracked down on protesters laying coffins outside the home of Lebanon’s interior minister. The demonstrators, who lost family in the port blast last year, blame him for protecting those responsible.
The protesters set off from downtown Beirut on Tuesday afternoon and marched toward the home of Mohammed Fahmi, currently serving as Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister. Carrying coffins to represent the loved ones they lost in 2020’s devastating port explosion, they demanded that Fahmi lift the immunity granted to senior officials, who they say allowed the blast to happen through negligence.
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