Nuclei of 7 Li were accelerated at the JINR Nuclotron. After the charge-exchange reaction involving these nuclei at an external target a second 7 Be beam of energy 1.23A GeV was formed.This beam was used to expose photo-emulsion chambers. The mean free path for inelastic 7 Be interactions in emulsion λ=14.0±0.8 cm coincides within the errors with those for 6 Li and 7 Li nuclei.More than 10% of the 7 Be events are associated with the peripheral interactions in which the total charge of the relativistic fragments is equal to the charge of the 7 Be and in which charged mesons are not produced. An unusual ratio of the isotopes is revealed in the composition of the doubly charged 7 Be fragments: the number of 3 He fragments is twice as large as that of 4 He fragments.In 50% of peripheral interactions, a 7 Be nucleus decays to two doubly charged fragments. The present paper gives the channels of the 7 Be fragmentation to charged fragments. In 50% of events, the 7 Be fragmentation proceeds only to charged fragments involving no emission of neutrons. Of them, the 3 He+ 4 He channel dominates, the 4 He+d+p and 6 Li+p channels constitute 10% each.Two events involving no emission of neutrons are registered in the 3-body 3 He+t+p and 3 He+d+d channels. The mean free path for the coherent dissociation of relativistic 7 Be nuclei to 3 He+ 4 He is 7±1 m. The particular features of the relativistic 7 Be fragmentation in such peripheral interactions are explained by the 3 He+ 4 He 2-cluster structure of the 7 Be nucleus.PACS numbers: 21.45.+v, 23.60+e, 25.10.+s *