The Kataeb party on Thursday condemned the assassination of Lebanese activist and analyst Lokman Slim who was found dead earlier this morning in his car in Southern Lebanon, extending its deepest condolences to the victim’s family and his beloved ones.

“This crime is considered as a return to the series of political assassinations and a miserable attempt to strike diversity and the other opinion as well as to silence people of free voices calling for the establishment of a sovereign and independent State,” read a statement issued by the Kataeb party.

The party stressed that Slim’s assassination will increase its adherence to the State of truth, affirming that these terrorist gangs will not undermine the voice of truth that stands in the face of the “mafia equation and the militia.”

The Kataeb called on all free people in the country to take a unified stance, rejecting the prevailing culture of impunity in Lebanon.