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Conflict Incident Report

Air shooting in Tripoli as a protest against an arrest

Date of incident: 
November 7, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

قام أحد المواطنين، في محلة التل في طرابلس، بإطلاق أعيرة نارية في الهواء احتجاجاً على قيام دورية من قوى الأمن الداخلي بحجز سيارة مخالفة. وعلى الاثر، تدخلت وحدات من الجيش اللبناني وتعمل على مطاردة مطلق النار.

Primary category: 
Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
Secondary Category: 
Shooting
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Policy conflicts
Conflicts associated with political decisions, government or state policies regarding matters of public concern, such as debates concerning law reforms, electoral laws, and protests of the government’s political decisions, among others.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
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.