Beirut explosion .. The judicial investigator visits the destroyed port and orders the arrest of the Director General of Customs

The Lebanese judicial investigator, Judge Fadi Sawan, issued today, Monday, an arrest warrant for the current Director General of Customs, Badri Daher, after hearing him about the file of the explosion that struck Beirut port on 4 August.

The National News Agency reported today that the investigator, Sawan, was questioned over a period of 4 and a half hours, Daher, and at the end of the session, he issued a face arrest warrant against him.

According to the agency, Judge Sawan went to the port of Beirut, to inspect the site of the bombing and inspect the resulting damage.

Sawan concluded his investigations today, and will complete them tomorrow, Tuesday, by listening to the director of the port, Hassan Quraitem, and the former Director General of Customs, Shafiq Merhi, and others.

The discriminatory public prosecutor, the judge, had charged 25 people - including 19 arrested - with crimes of negligence and negligence and causing the death of more than 170 people, wounding of thousands, in addition to the destruction of Beirut port facilities and public and private property.

The circulating images of the massive destruction inflicted on the city of Beirut after the port explosion reveal that the devastating blast wave may be one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever recorded in the world. Some even estimate that this explosion is more like a nuclear bomb.

The biggest bangs

According to an investigation by Reuters, the Beirut explosion ranked fourth in the series of the largest non-nuclear explosions in the world, with its force equivalent to about 300 tons of explosives.

Experts for the agency estimated the size of the explosion at the equivalent of 200 to 300 tons of high explosives compared to other accidental explosions and conventional weapons.

Experts revealed that 6 explosions preceded the main explosion in the Beirut port, the last of which was the burning of fireworks, which apparently led to the explosion of a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate.

And they indicated that the explosions, each 11 seconds apart, were recorded before the big explosion, which occurred 43 seconds after the six explosions.