The “Lebanon Debate” website learned that the investigations into the case that led to the arrest of the officer in the Beirut Fire Brigade, Mohamed Heba, were originally launched under the supervision of the Information Division, and the first phase resulted in the arrest of two members of the same regiment.
Field data showed that investigations led to suspicion of the involvement of the officer in charge of them, which necessitated his arrest by the Information Division, which lured him from his place of residence under the pretext of heading to the regiment headquarters.
The sources confirmed that all measures taken against the officer were based on the reference of the competent judiciary, denying the validity of what was circulated by some information about the presence of political interference or mediation in the course of the file.
Regarding the details of the course of the investigation, the Information Division initiated the case from its inception, and the officer was later left under investigation based on a judicial signal, without his final release.
New evidence and data later appeared in the file, based on a reference from the competent judiciary, which required the officer to be re-arrested again to complete the investigations.
Available data confirm that the case began with investigations conducted by the Information Division and included the arrest of several people, before expanding to include the responsible officer, emphasizing that judicial procedures alone constitute the basic reference for arrest decisions and follow-up investigations.
