Collective Action
Family members of the missing persons who were on a boat that sank roadblock in Tripoli to protest the delay by authorities in finding the remaining bodies
أفاد مراسل "النهار" عن توتر الأوضاع في منطقة القبة- طرابلس، ممّا استدعى تدخل الجيش. وأشار المراسل إلى احتدام الأوضاع شمالاً، بعدما تحرّك أهالي ركاب "زورق الموت" احتجاجاً على عدم انتشال جثث ذويهم حتّى اللحظة، في ظلّ إطلاق نار كثيف.
The families of the victims of the migrant vessel that sank off the coast of the city in April blocked several roads in Tripoli to protest the delay by authorities in finding the bodies of dozens of victims who remain missing. Only seven bodies have so far been found by the Civil Defense and the army following the incident. Relatives of the victims regularly organize protests to demand that the search for the victims of the shipwreck be accelerated. Since the sinking, the Lebanese Army has been carrying out search operations along the Lebanese coast. A spokesperson for the Lebanese Army told L'Orient-Le Jour a month ago that the army had neither the “technical or human means to be able to extract the people” who ended up in the sea during the incident. Heavy automatic weapon fire was heard overnight in several neighbourhoods of Tripoli following the protest.