Lebanese NGOs have filed a complaint with the discriminatory prosecutor against Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil on charges of inciting sectarian and civil strife.
The lawsuit included a deputy, a former parliamentarian, the head of a local authority, and political activists.
Bassil's comments come on the basis of the Lebanese concept of genetic superiority, promoting what the associations described as a campaign of incitement against refugees, in addition to accusing one of the defendants, the mayor of the city of Hadath, of sectarian discrimination for refusing to register property for Muslims within his municipality.
Prosecutors accuse Minister Gebran Bassil and other FPM officials of inciting sectarian and racial strife and inciting conflict among the Lebanese people in their public statements.
The associations called for the accused to be tried to deter them from repeating their actions, which they said contradicted coexistence.
The Free Patriotic Movement, to which Minister Bassil belongs, denied the charges and said his policies were based on respect for the charter of coexistence and immune to Lebanon from pressure from refugees.