BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, head of the parliamentary Future bloc, said Sunday justice will eventually be achieved and the criminals who killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri seven years ago will be punished. In an interview with Ash-Sharq radio station on the eve of the 7th anniversary of Hariri’s assassination Tuesday, Siniora said: “Those who carried out this crime had thought that they will get rid of Rafik Hariri and that within 15 days the Lebanese will weep over him and later, because of the barriers of silence and fear, they will return to exercising their daily lives and forget Rafik Hariri. But they were wrong ... The truth is that the presence of Rafik Hariri has increased despite his absence. What Rafik Hariri has done for Lebanon is that he has always constituted a glimmer of hope for the Lebanese.” Siniora added that Hariri, who was killed along with 22 people in a massive suicide truck bombing in Beirut on Feb. 14, 2005, constituted “the will of the Lebanese to stand fast and to believe in Lebanon’s ability to overcome difficulties.”