Detlev Mehlis
Detlev Mehlis
Detlev Mehlisis the Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin. He has 30 years of prosecutorial experience and has led numerous investigations into serious, complex transnational crimes. He has been a senior public prosecutor since 1992 and has, over the course of his career, been responsible for prosecuting terrorism and organized crime cases. Most notably, he investigated the bombing on the discotheque La Belle in then West-Berlin in 1986, which claimed the life of two...
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Those arrested are believed to have helped in plotting the assassination.
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That will be the end from my personal mandate. I have to go back and I will go back to my job that I like. I never asked for this assignment. I agreed to be available up to seven months.
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But we didn't find a major inaccuracy in his statements. And again I find it very credible. But after all, we are doing the investigation; we are not doing the judgment. And in cases like this the judge will decide.
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None of these changes were influenced by anyone.
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No one outside of the report team influenced these changes, and no changes whatsoever were suggested by the secretary general or anyone at the U.N..
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It remains to be seen whether the Syrian cooperation will be in full and without any conditions.
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This would enable the commission to fill in the gaps and to have a clearer picture about the organizers and perpetrators.
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There were some problems, but I am optimistic that these problems can be solved, because they will have to be solved, because without this cooperation, we will not have the full picture.
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This is not the behavior of a government and a state that wants to assist the international community and the Lebanese people in finding out what happened, who's responsible.
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I will continue to fulfill my responsibilities to safeguard the Constitution, Lebanese laws and the integrity of Lebanese territory.
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If the investigation is to be completed, it is essential that the government of Syria fully cooperate with the investigating authorities, including by allowing interviews to be held outside Syria and for interviewees not to be accompanied by Syrian officials.
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At this rate the investigation might take another year or two. Cooperation in good faith should be diligent and timely.
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The investigation is not over yet. We feel we took a very important step, but these five suspects we have arrested in our assessment are only part of the picture, so we will have to further investigate and we do think more people are involved.
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I am not commenting on any meetings with anybody ... I have a job to finish.