Interpol In Lebanon
INTERPOL and the STL
On June 30, Lebanese authorities confirmed receiving the indictments by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the court set up to try the perpetrators of the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
A month later, on July 29, Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen ordered that the identities of the indicted individuals be made known, and the names Salim Jamil Ayyash, Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra were made public.
This Thursday, August 11 marks the deadline by which Lebanese authorities are to report on carrying out the arrest warrants. As some are speculating that the four indicted men are outside Lebanese borders, INTERPOL, the worldâs largest international police organization , has the right to step in to help apprehend them.
NOW Lebanon spoke to INTERPOLâs general counsel, Joël Sollier, about the international police forceâs work and his outlook on the STL.
In what capacity does INTERPOL cooperate with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon?
Joël Sollier: Cooperation has taken place in two phases.
Firstly, we collaborated with the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) under the Saad Hariri government, helping with the initial investigations. INTERPOL provided the UNIIIC with information in a classic police collaboration manner.
Secondly, in 2009 INTERPOL and the STL finalized a cooperation agreement, which gave the STL direct access to INTERPOLâs databases and information systems.
Historically speaking, it is worth noting that INTERPOL has signed a number of agreements with previously-established UNSC tribunals, essentially the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia .
How does INTERPOL assist in the arrest process?
Sollier: The STL has issued four arrest warrants, containing the pictures and other personal identifiers of the wanted individuals. Our role is to circulate these arrest warrants internationally to INTERPOLâs 188 member countries so that police around the world have the capacity to identify and arrest the four wanted individuals should they enter their territory.
The names are also registered in automated detection systems.
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The UN-backed, Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is investigating the 2005 murder of ex-premier Rafik Hariri, said on Sunday that INTERPOL had circulated arrest warrants for the four suspects in the bombing.
"I can confirm that the tribunal has requested Interpol to notify all states of the arrest warrants against the accused in the 15th February 2005 attack," the court's Beirut spokesperson, Martin Youssef, told AFP.
He said that the international police organization had issued a so-called "red notice" to member states late on Friday but gave no information on the presumed whereabouts or the identity of the four suspects.
"The international arrest warrants will not be published and will not be available to the public because they are still confidential," he added.
A senior officer in Lebanon's security services told AFP that Lebanon and the other 187 INTERPOL member states had received the "red notice" on Saturday asking them to arrest the suspects and hand them over to the UN-backed court for trial.
The official said the warrants were for four senior Hezbollah officers who are accused of carrying out a "terrorist act" and of "killing Rafiq Hariri and 21 others using explosives."
The Special Tribunal submitted a confidential indictment and arrest warrants for the four accused on June 30. The names of the four were not released but were leaked to the Beirut media and later confirmed by the Lebanese government.
Mustafa Badreddin, Salim Ayyash, Assad Sabra and Hussein Anaissi are all members of Shia militant group Hezbollah, which fought a devastating 2006 war with Israel and now leads the majority bloc in the Lebanese parliament.
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