Former Chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis has said the assassination of An Nahar General Manager MP Gebran Tueni was part of threats made against the German prosecutor and the commission he headed.Mehlis, who appeared Tuesday on May Chidiac's LBC talk show Bi Kul Jura'a ( with all your courage) in Berlin that "dangerous threats" were made against him during his mission in Beirut and Tueni's killing in a car bombing on Dec. 12, 2005 was part of such threats because it came a day before the former investigator handed over his last report to the U.N. Security Council. "The late MP Gebran Tueni was assassinated a day before I released the December 2005 report," Mehlis said in his first TV interview since he stepped down as head of the U.N. commission investigating ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's Feb. 14, 2005 assassination and related crimes.
A group calling itself Jund El Sham, threatened to slaughter German Prosecutor Detlev Mehlis in October 2005.
Criminals are feeling "safe" in their attacks and erecting security "cameras in every street corner" could help catch the murderers, the German prosecutor told Chidiac about the series of assassinations since Hariri's killing in a massive explosion in Beirut. When asked that some parties in Lebanon refused erecting security cameras, Mehlis said: "Better being spied on than getting killed."