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Airport Police Thwart Bid to Smuggle Narcotics
Date of incident:
December 28, 2015
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
General Security
Airport police thwarted at dawn an attempt to smuggle two kilograms of narcotics through the Rafik Hariri International Airport, the state-run National News Agency said on Monday.
The assailant, a Brazilian national, tried to smuggle the drugs to Lebanon from Brazil through Ethiopia, NNA added.
He wrapped them in vacuum plastic bags and hid them in two children handbags.
Lebanese authorities at the airport interrogated the smuggler who was later referred to the central anti-narcotics office.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/198093-airport-police-thwart-bid-to-s...
Primary category:
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category:
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
Classification of conflict (primary):
Power & governance conflicts
Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.
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