(Zaman al-Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learnt that the rights activist lawyer Tarek Shindib was subjected to a failed assassination attempt on Friday evening in Geneva where he is participating in the symposium, ‘Iran exports Terrorism to the World via Militias’ held by the Swiss Press club.
Dr. Shindib recounted to Zaman al-Wasl the arrival of six people carrying knives who tried to kill him as they objected to his lecture about Iranian terrorism and its funders. The lawyer, famous for his defense of the Syrian people against the al-Assad regime, indicated that the aforementioned people were waiting for him on the street of the hotel where the symposium participants are staying. They were, as he said, six people carrying knives. They approached him, and then the Kempinski hotel security intervened and saved him, but his attackers fled and the Swiss authorities are still searching for them.
The rights activist Anwar al-Gharbi denounced the attacks on the participants in the Press Club’s symposium where participants were attacked in the halls of the United Nations and outside it on the street. He said on his Facebook profile page, “this issue demonstrates the danger of loose criminal groups, the danger of their operations, and their presence on Swiss territory raises big questions about the security of the country.”
He indicated that a number of lawyers will follow this dangerous issue legally and politically and al-Gharb asked for solutions to prevent the attackers’ escape from Geneva. He requested the Iraqi delegation at the United Nations cooperate fully with the authorities, and provide it with all the identities. He called on the federal authorities and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to open an investigation into how such people were granted visas to enter Swiss territory, and the necessity of confirming if they are resident in Swiss. In addition to the need to alert the world to the presence of certain extremist group cells or branches that threaten the country and its citizens’ security.
The lawyer Tarek Shindib, professor of international law in the Lebanese University, has for years been exposed to media campaigns whether in the Lebanese media or Arab media connected to the al-Assad regime and Iran accusing him of extremism based on his opposition to the hegemony of Hezbollah in Lebanese government decisions. The pro-Assad Lebanese television channel al-Jadeed even called him, “the lawyer for Daesh.”
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