FILE PHOTO: Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai arrives to lead a mass in memory of the victims, as Lebanon marks one-year anniversary of the explosion at the port in Beirut, Lebanon August 4, 2021. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanon's top Christian cleric said on Sunday the government should put an end to any meddling in the judiciary after the probe into last year's vast Beirut port blast was halted by the latest of a series of complaints against the lead investigator.
The investigation was frozen on Monday when a former minister wanted for questioning as a suspect filed a case questioning the judge's impartiality.
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