Three days after the deadly and destructive explosion in the port of Beirut, the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, "categorically denied" on Friday August 7 that his organization had an "arms warehouse" in the Port of Beirut.

"I totally, categorically deny that there is anything of ours in the port, neither arms warehouse, nor missile warehouse (...) nor a bomb, nor a bullet, nor nitrate" of ammonium, hammered the head of Hezbollah in a televised address. Since the double explosion on Tuesday, the media and part of the public have singled out the influential Lebanese Shiite movement.

More than 150 people were killed, more than 5,000 wounded and dozens disappeared after the explosion of an incredible power in a warehouse containing in particular 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate "without precautionary measures", according to the authorities.

With AFP

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