Hariri Murder Reenactment to Take Place in France Sept. 28

A reenactment of the 2005 Beirut assassination of ex-prime minister Rafik Hariri is to be staged in France later this month as part of a U.N.-backed probe into his murder, a source confirmed Saturday.
The exercise is to take place at a military base in southwestern France on September 28, said the source.

Le Figaro journalist Georges Malbrunot wrote in his blog that the re-enactment will happen under tight security at the base in Captieux, in the Gironde region, southwest France. It normally serves as an army firing range.

A French explosives expert working with the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon began work on the exercise in June, he added.

At the request of the Lebanese prosecutor's office, the tribunal is investigating the February 14, 2005 bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others.

Parts of the Beirut street that Hariri's convoy had taken and the surrounding buildings had been reconstructed for the exercise, Malbrunot reported.

AFP