Special Tribunal for Lebanon Vice-President Judge Ralph Riachy criticized the Lebanese judiciary and wondered why the Judicial Council hadn't issued any ruling in the case of President-elect Bashir Gemayel's assassination in 1982.
"We wouldn't have needed an international court in the first place" if the Lebanese judicial system was flawless, Riachy told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Thursday.
"They might say that (lack of a sentence) is due to the non-presence of the accused. But I wonder why the culprits couldn't be sentenced in absentia," he said about Gemayel's case.
About accusations that the STL is politicized, Riachy said: "What can we do to convince them that it isn't?"
