The head of the Change Movement, lawyer Elie Mahfoud, and a group of lawyers filed a complaint with the Beirut Public Prosecutor’s Office against former Hezbollah deputy Nawaf Moussaoui for his statements, on Friday, threatening any candidate for the presidency of the Republic who is hostile to his party’s line
The former MPs delivered those threats in reaction to the tribute paid to President Bachir Gemayel, assassinated on September 14, 1982. On that occasion, Moussaoui declared that “any President of the Republic who opposes the line taken by Hezbollah will not be able to live!”
Mahfoud stressed, “Our presence at the courthouse is not intended to defend Bachir Gemayel, but to express our reactions in an institutional manner. The remarks made by Nawaf Moussaoui constitute a clear and direct threat to any presidential candidate, suggesting that any candidate disapproved of by Hezbollah will be subject to acts of assassination and elimination.”
He emphasized that “the timing of Moussaoui’s statements is inopportune, given his partisan and political position, and Hezbollah has a duty to provide clarification.”
As a reminder, Nawaf Moussaoui had made controversial remarks during a parliamentary session, “recalling” that “Bachir Gemayel had reached Baabda on the back of an Israeli tank,” according to the former MP. Moussaoui resigned his seat as MP in July 2019, at the request of his party, Hezbollah.
