Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests suspected murderer in Beirut's Cola

Date of incident:

July 10, 2018

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Internal Security Forces (ISF)

Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces has arrested a suspected murderer in Beirut’s Cola area, the ISF reported in a statement Thursday.

The statement said the suspect confessed to killing another man due to “relationship disagreements with a girl.”

The suspect, identified as A.R., a Syrian man born in 1997, was arrested July 10, the ISF said.

Authorities pursued the suspect after they found the body of a Syrian man identified as Gh.R., born in 1989, inside an abandoned building in Beirut’s Nahr area.

The ISF said he was “in a state of decomposition” and had several bruises and fractures on his face from being beaten with a stone.

According to the statement, investigations had led the ISF’s Information Branch to identify and arrest A.R., who confessed to the crime during interrogation.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.

Source Link:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2018/Jul-13/456387-…

Primary category:

Murder

Secondary Category:

Arrest/Detention

Classification of conflict (primary):

Individual acts of violence

Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.

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ISF arrests suspected murderer in Beirut's Cola

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