الراعي يرى أن المتهم بريئاً حتى تثبت إدانته: لا يحق لأي طرف أن يطالب بتسليم المتهمين باغتيال الحريري

I am so disappointed by our new Patriarch in all the positions he took, and i wanted him to become Patriarch in the first place.

Another call the politics and religion dont mix well. We just need the cardinal to tell us when Xmas is, the grand mufti when Ramadan starts, the grand rabi when Hanukkah starts and that's pretty much it. Let the democratically elected people manage policies and the judicial system ask the 4 Hezbollah to be in jail till the get judged. Will get released and compensated if proven innocent. It's called preventive.

No thumb down for you, because I'm a tolerant person and preach tolerance towards my fellow unarmed Lebanese compatriots.

specially the corrupt Lebanese judiciary

come on guys! he will say that the journalists mis quoted him :)

FT i suggest you keep your sarcastic comments to yourself and let the others give their opinions, we are not in a HA/aoun dictatorship yet.

weirdly enough this comes after a meeting he held with a Hizballa delegation before he left to Rome...

A very disappointing statement from Patriarch Rahi especially when everybody knows that suspects need to be interrogated by the authorities in order for the investigation to move forward, and thus their innocence or guilt has nothing to do with the fact that authorities have to questions them.

cardinal rahi is playing the game of archbishop jumblat...poor saado he is staying by the corner.

Il ne sait pas que c'est bien le tribunal qui a demandé de lui consigner les accusés ??? Mon Dieu c'est grave.

don't take what this religious fanatic says, he's as corrupt as most other politicians, considering he's NOT a politician

a suspect is innocent until proved guilty , yes but the justice has the right to order a suspect to come and testify! if truly innocent he has nothing to fear! it seems those suspects fear the tribunal, why? lol

Like how they arrested the generals and company, then released them for lack of evidence. Hope you will never be a suspect, you will be waiting in prison, until they find time to see your case. And STL is the most politicized court ever.

Four generals were arrested for four years. What a joke this STL is!

This batrak is unusually phony, pretentious and Mr.knows it all. He and all other religious figures should stay away from politics and save us from their ignorance.

The worst kind of useful idiots. Did he get a new check from Iran or Hizbollah criminals? What an ambarassement, the anti-cedar revolution!!!

Have some respect for the man of the cloth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this guy is a joke - what kind of logic is this?

1.) “No party has the right to request the handing over of the suspects because a suspect is innocent until proven guilty and the issue is up to the judiciary to decide,” al-Rahi said in response to a question on the request made by the March 14 opposition alliance.
2.) "ISF arrested 83 people for committing different crimes throughout Lebanon."
Beshara Cardinal Rahi, beloved Patriarch of the Maronite rite of the Catholic Church in Lebenon and throughout the world.
To his Excellency, please "Say it ain't so." Tell us this is a misquote. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is not a "competent" legal authority?
You and/or your advisors have either been struck with madness or you have received a threat against the all christian people in Lebanon. Surely nothing else could have led to such a rash statement.

Respectfully submitted.

Religious clerics of all sects, keep out of politics. Religion is posion.

Well then, no one has the right to ask for any suspects to be handed over according to your logic Rahi...

Amen pour ces saintes paroles.

Again, Patriarch has misspoken. The taking into custody of suspects upon reasonable cause is a time honored method of criminal procedure. In fact, the very act of a custodial arrest upon probably cause has been a part of jurisprudence going back centuries. Arrest does not equal conviction, probably cause, does not mean guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. And there is always the right of bail in the event that the suspect is not a flight risk.
Patriarch is many things, but a criminal prosecutor, he is not and so he should not be weighing in on such things. Especially where there are legal as well as political considerations. Patriarch is neither lawyer nor politician.

il parait que c pas une belle journee pour le cardinal

happy achoura cardinal

I suggest you stick to the religion and how to bring people together as the master taught us, You should leave the politics to others playing and exercising that role.

mahdoum hal cardinal,ahdam min muftina kabbani.

If you always say things that tend to be "misinterpreted" why don't you zip it?

The involvement of HA in this murder is beyond doubt, the question is how much will it cost to bring them to trail.
Is this the real fear?
Should we allow them to roam free and continue their killing spree?
Which direction will cost more?
Had there been just the killing of Harriri, maybe we can ask these questions, but the continuous slaughter of opposing political figures and innocent bystanders leaves us only one choice.

good

we all know that jamil sayyed is guilty... just by looking at him you know he's part of the hariri assassination.