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The president is ordering to investigate allegations that some legal experts are aware of and face the perpetrators of the 2019 bombing.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered a thorough investigation into allegations that some members of state law know and meet people who practice Easter Sunday bombs in 2019 which killed more than 260 people, said a government official.

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has written to President Tuesday to protest the government’s handling of a suicide bombing and to investigate the relationship between the spies and the terrorist group.

Two Islamist groups claiming to have declared allegiance to the ISIL (ISIS) group staged six protests in churches and tourist hotels, killing 269 people.

A man did not commit an attack on a fourth guest hotel but committed suicide later and detonated a bomb at another location.

A letter from the National Catholic Committee for Justice for Easter Sunday Attack Victims, a group of bishops and priests led by Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, called on the President to take legal action against former President Maithripala Sirisena for negligence as he approves the President’s report.

Sirisena’s government has been widely criticized for ignoring foreign warnings that an attack is imminent.

Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella on Wednesday said all the council’s findings had been handed over to the authorities.

“There are a lot of things going on and the best thing the president can do is send them to the authorities,” Rambukwella said.

“The president has sent all of them to the authorities to take action.”

The church group also said former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should be investigated because the report confirmed that their soft “Islamic” approach posed a threat.

The letter also stated that officials had not taken action against 11 police officers, two officials from the Attorney General’s Department and two Muslim politicians nominated by the committee.

Several lawmakers have spoken in parliament, citing witnesses who appeared before the council that members of state law met a man who had fled the initial threat before committing suicide.

A letter from church officials cited a statement from parliament saying the spies were thought to have been detained by police.

The report of the Presidential Commission has not been made public. One volume was submitted to the legislature and the entire report was submitted to the Legal Department for comment.