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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests pair of car thieves in Bekaa

Date of incident: 
December 7, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces Judicial Police has arrested two brothers for stealing cars and later selling them, the agency announced in a statement Saturday.

On Friday, the police arrested Syrian national Z.Aa., born in 1995, in Baalbeck’s Tamnin. Upon investigation, he allegedly admitted to stealing Hyundai and Kia cars with his brother.

Z.Aa. said he and his brother had stolen 11 cars from Zahle and neighboring towns and later sold them in Baalbeck’s Brital.
A Judicial Police force later arrested his brother, identified as Aa.Aa., born in 1991

Primary 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.