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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests suspected car thief

Date of incident: 
November 9, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces has arrested a suspected car thief near Arsal, the agency said in a statement released Friday.

The Information Branch had been investigating a series of car thefts in Mount Lebanon and Bekaa.

The patrol ordered the driver to stop several times, and eventually shot at the car, but the driver continued until he reached the town of Arsal, where he crashed the car and escaped on foot.

The stolen car was confiscated, and the man was later arrested. He was identified as Syrian national Y.E., born in 1966.

 

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category: 
Shooting
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.