Former chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis accused on Wednesday “pro-Syrian forces in Lebanon” of involvement in Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel’s assassination. The German prosecutor who led the investigation into ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s murder before handing over the U.N.-backed probe to Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz in January also said Tuesday’s killing was an attack on the United Nations.

“It is an attack on the Lebanese government and the planned international tribunal (to examine Hariri’s murder) and it is also an attack on the U.N.,” Mehlis told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily newspaper to be published on Thursday.

“It is apparent to anyone who is unbiased that all the clues after this attack clearly point to the forces who want to bring down the Lebanese government and get in the way of the tribunal.

“These are the so-called pro-Syrian forces in Lebanon. They have an obvious motive.”

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