Crisis in Lebanon: "It is time for the international powers to be much more severe"
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Under a white tent set up in a rather affluent area of the Lebanese capital, volunteers distribute hot meals to residents.
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By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow
8 mins
In a column published in the daily
Le Monde
, 100 Lebanese personalities from civil society call on President Macron to put an end to the widespread corruption in Lebanon.
Worried about rampant poverty and record inflation in the land of the cedar, they ask France to freeze all assets of dubious origin.
Despite billions of international aid, the state coffers are empty, while the political classes are getting richer.
The explanations of Karim-Emile Bitar, director of the Institute of Political Sciences of the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, researcher associated with IRIS, signatory of the platform.
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