The Director of General Security, Elias Baissari, was charged by the government to hold talks with Syrian authorities to repatriate displaced Syrians and migrants serving prison sentences for crimes they committed.
The decision was taken on Tuesday morning during a ministerial meeting chaired by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Serail, in the presence of judges and heads of security services.
At the end of the meeting, the caretaker Minister of Justice, Henri Khoury, announced that General Baissari had been instructed to contact the Syrian authorities on this matter. His colleague in charge of Foreign affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib, reported on the political interventions made in some cases to obtain the release of Syrians arrested by the forces of law and order.
The meeting comes in response to the outcry in the country over murders, involving Syrians, including the killing of the coordinator of the Lebanese Forces in Jbeil, Pascal Sleiman, an elderly man in Achrafieh and, most recently, a resident of Aley.
