Natour Interrogation Postponed to End of March
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Beirut Examining Magistrate Ghassan Owaidat postponed on Monday the interrogation of Samih al-Natour, who is accused along with his brother of processing and selling spoiled meat and other food products, as well as the attempted murders of the consumers to whom they knowingly sold the food, reported the National News Agency.
The interrogation has been postponed to March 29 after Natour’s lawyer Malek Mneiemneh presented Owaidat with a memorandum.
Last week, the Ministry of Economy’s Consumer Protection Directorate raided the warehouse owned by the brothers in the Sabra area in Tarik el-Jadeedah where they confiscated 25 tons of expired meat.
Voice of Lebanon radio reported on Monday that the concerned authorities began to transfer the spoiled food from one of the brothers’ warehouses in Tarik al-Jadeedah to a laboratory to determine the extent of their contamination and to find out if they were spoiled when they were imported.
On Sunday, over a ton and a half of spoiled fish was found dumped in the town of Ansariyeh in the South and large quantities of expired sweets were found dumped on the road between al-Rawdah and Majdal Anjar in the Bekaa.
The sweets were set on fire in order to cover up the fact that they had been spoiled, but some that were salvaged were discovered to have been expired in 2006, reported VDL.
NNA later reported on Monday that some 25 kilograms of spoiled meat were found in garbage bags that were dumped in the outskirts of the town of Aalita in Jbeil.
It later said that the Tyre municipality seized large quantities of spoiled meat, poultry, and dairy products in stores throughout the city.
The cases stirred the “food safety” crisis as the Consumer Protection Directorate raided several other warehouses in al-Fanar, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Tyre, and Marjayoun that were selling spoiled meat and food products.
The seized products included poultry, meat, canned food, cheese and several other consumer products.
The Internal Security Forces detained at least eight other people for food safety violations in separate raids.
19 March 2012, 16:06
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Imagine what have we been eating when M14s were in power all the time & no one to stop them, thank God now there is somebody to punish them already...G8 job Mr. Mikati!!!
19 March 2012, 16:39
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I think we should all thank Mrs. Randa Nabih Berri for getting poisonned and openng the door to the spoiled food issue. Had it been me or you, nobody would have cared less!!! Who said that double-standards do not exist???
19 March 2012, 16:56
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Now even when we buy great products the lack of electricity will spoil the food that we paid for to feed our family, spoiled rotten. Great job to you blind m8 supporters.
19 March 2012, 16:58
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Having said that m14 is NOT the answer. What we need is 40 MP's and 12 ministers. They all must have university education and never been in government before. A fresh start!!
19 March 2012, 17:08
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M8 and M14????? What are we computers? We are Lebanese don't forget that. LEBANESE!!! NOT M this and M that!!! M All of u!!!!! Unite as Lebanese you morons before the Jews and Americans take what is Left of Lebanon and turn all of you Ms into Ns which stands for nothing. You should be ashamed of yourselves as lebanese. Shatreen tshabhu a badkun.
19 March 2012, 17:29
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Rotten Country, that's how Mafia makes money, whether it is m14 or m8 or march whatever, it's a big mafia link including custom officers, politicians,and those people who import them probably for 10$ a ton, and sell them back with huge profits. Honestly, thank God I'm not in Lebanon anymore, from one point I do not blame these people selling them expired, because Lebanese people themselves already accepted to live in such a situation, so u gotta bare with this, Most of Lebanese are happy with this situation to make money illegally, so they gotta pay for this somehow, because others want to make money quickly as well, that's why the sell rotten food.
Cheers from Canada
19 March 2012, 17:56
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Great, it seems the Natour's know a couple of influential people in the judicial system and nothing is going to happen. Glad the media is covering it and hopefully keeping them accountable. Unless, the media gets paid off too.
19 March 2012, 21:05
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Where there are corruption, robberies, terrorism, assassinations, don't look far. They are always the same ,located in the same places.
They call themselves the honorous resistance. A label to hide their real profession.
19 March 2012, 21:22
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Mmmmmm deliciously imported through the port controlled by the Hezz. What a failed thug government.
The Hezz have become a laughing stock in the region.
19 March 2012, 23:11
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Did anyone said Mafia???
In our beloved Lebanon. No way lol
The saddest part of this episode no govt official has the decency to claim responsibility and resign. Did anybody said Mafia???
