Judge Saqr Saqr files complaint against ISF member, 6 other prisoners

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr filed a complaint on Wednesday against 6 prisoners from the Roumieh penitentiary and an Internal Security Forces member for their involvement in attempting to smuggle 150 grams of explosive materials into the mentioned prison.         

In accordance with article 335 of the penal law, and articles 5 and 6 of the law issued in 11/1/1958 the case of the prisoners and the ISF member was referred to the Military Investigative Magistrate Judge Riad Aboud Ghida.                 

On Wednesday, October 2 investigations were launched over a security member trying to smuggle 150 grams of Carbide inside a sandwich into the Roumieh penitentiary.               

The explosives were intended to be delivered to prisoner Charbel Chalita, who later on gave names of Fatah al-Islam members involved in the incident.                      

On the 21st of November 2012, Examining Magistrate Judge Ziad Makna issued an indictment against citizen Charbel Chalita, demanding the death penalty on charges of committing a premeditated crime in killing 22-year-old Roland Chbeir on October 28.      

Chalita had confessed of committing the crime for financial reasons.