The French judiciary meanwhile scheduled a May 31 session for the interrogation of Salameh’s brother Raja and a June 13 session for the interrogation of Salameh’s assistant Marianne Hoayek, LBCI added.
Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...received the Interpol notice for Salameh on Friday, after he failed to show up in Gay Paree earlier in the week for questioning in a key corruption case.
The Interior Ministry referred the arrest warrant to the judiciary and caretaker Interior Minister Bassam al-Mawlawi reportedly said he would enforce it if the Lebanese judiciary asked him to do so.
However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
Lebanon is unlikely to comply with the Interpol notice and arrest and hand over Salameh to French authorities. Under the country's laws, Lebanon does not extradite its own citizens. In 2020, it received two Interpol red notices for tycoon Carlos Ghosn, who faced financial misconduct charges in Japan. Ghosn remains in Lebanon.
Judicial sources meanwhile told al-Akhbar newspaper that Oueidat would likely tell La Belle France that according to the Lebanese law, Lebanese citizens should be tried in Lebanon. He would not arrest Salameh but would ban him from traveling, the sources said.