[3] It resulted in the killing of 11 people[4] and injuring 54,[2] and the jailing of the Christian Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea,[4] who in turn accused the Syrian-Lebanese security apparatus for the bombing,[5] which happened during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
[13] The following year, on 24 June 1995, Geagea was found guilty of the murder of Chamoun and his family and sentenced to death, commuted to life in prison with hard labour.
The trial over the church bombing was postponed in disarray after Girgis Khuri, the prosecutions main witness, withdrew his testimony.
[14] Geagea, who was convicted of the bombing and spent 11 years in solitary confinement,[4] accused the Syrian-Lebanese security system of carrying out the incident with the goal of dissolving the Lebanese Forces and arresting him.
[5] On July 13, 1996, Public Prosecutor Adnan Addoum requested the death penalty for Geagea and others, including Antonios Elias, Jerjes Khoury, Rushdi Raad, and Jean Shahine, and hard labor for life for Fouad Malek and Paul and Rafik Al-Fahl.