The Higher Judicial Council held a meeting headed by its President, Judge Suhail Abboud, to discuss the decision of the Court of Cassation to remove judicial investigator, Judge Fadi Sawan, from the Beirut port explosion file, and choose an alternative judge to assume this task in agreement with the Caretaker Minister of Justice, Marie-Claude Najm, who will suggest a candidate to be assigned this case.

The Higher Judicial Council has decided to keep its sessions open until the decision was issued to select the new judicial investigator and hand the file over to him.