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R.I.P Antonio Cassese

October 22, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

He was a good man.

I leave you with this enlightened piece of reporting by Al-Akhbar after Cassese’s resignation, as dug up by Qifa Nabki:

Nashabe (who is the paper’s judicial affairs editor) claimed that the previous day’s resignation of Antonio Cassese from the presidency of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) was “likely prompted by a power struggle between prosecutor Daniel Bellemare and STL judges,” and not by health issues, as Cassese had originally said.

Maybe Cassese committed suicide to prove that he resigned because he was sick.. The Al-Akhbar plot thickens..