Habib Tanious Shartouni
| Habib Tanious Shartouni حبيب الشرتوني |
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April 24, 1958 Chartoun, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon. |
| Nationality | Lebanese |
| Criminal charge | Murder of President Bachir Gemayel |
Habib Tanious Shartouni (born April 24, 1958) (Arabic: حبيب الشرتوني) is the alleged assassin of the Lebanese president-elect Bachir Gemayel.
Habib Tanious Shartouni, a Maronite, was born in a small village called (Arabic: شرتون) Chartoun in Aley, Mount Lebanon. In the early 1970s, only a few years before the outbreak of the civil war, he was inspired and became affiliated with the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP). When the Lebanese Civil War broke out, he volunteered to serve in one of the SSNP stations in Aley.
A few months later, he was advised by his parents to flee from Lebanon to Cyprus then to France where he attended a university in Paris and obtained a degree in business. He had spent his first year in Paris away from politics, until the late summer of 1977 during which he officially joined the SSNP upon his first visit to Lebanon and became an active member ever since.
Upon his return to France, he carried all the necessary contacts pertaining to the party's delegates in Paris and started attending some of their secret meetings, wherein he met Nabil Alam, the chief of interior of the party at the time. Alam made a significant impression on Shartouni, which paved the way for Bachir's assassination.
After completing his studies in Paris, he returned to Lebanon and became very close to Nabil Alam, who managed to convince him to carry out Bachir Gemayel's assassination, knowing that Shartouni used to live on the third floor of the building where the Kataeb headquarters was located.
Subsequently, he was advised by Alam to carry the explosives from his place in West Beirut to the other end in Achrafieh, in the eastern side of the city, above the Kataeb headquarters. After he had carried all the necessary explosives, he received the detonator from Alam and managed to carry it safely to his aunt's place in Achrafieh, a few miles away from his place.
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