Today, Sunday, the Public Prosecutor in Mount Lebanon, Judge Ghada Aoun, issued a decision in which she requested that “works in the vicinity of the Seal Cave in Amchit be stopped immediately until all environmental impact conditions are confirmed and evaluated.”
It is worth mentioning that the mayor of Amchit, Antoine Issa, had issued a statement in which he said: “There is a person who owns a property close to the Seal Cave and 15 meters away from it. He obtained from the Ministries of Transport, Interior and Environment, which are concerned with this issue, the necessary licenses to build a house for him in the place, and legally it is permissible to He has the right to build because the law and order allow it.”
He added, “When he started digging, the resurrection occurred because of the presence of the aforementioned cave next to his piece of land. We, as a municipality, have a written pledge from the property owner not to touch this cave at all. We asked him to install a machine to measure the vibration so that it does not affect the rock and the seal inside it. We also requested that the work be Through small machines and equipment, and most importantly, the presence of an engineer from the municipality to monitor the progress of work.”
He addressed “the biased people” and said, “Amshit is my town, and its sea is our sea, and I own a property near the cave, and we do not harm our town or the nature in it, and this is not part of my municipal history for 24 years, nor is it part of my moral character that I was raised with, and I call on the biased people to stop making up fabrications.” Fake news.
He stated in his statement that “the owner of the property has the license and this is his right to build a house on it because private property is a sacred right and no one has the right to infringe on it, and we are responsible for preserving the cave so that the seals they are talking about can stay in it.”
2024-01-21 17:27:59
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