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Conflict Incident Report

Arrest of a truck in Tripoli

Date of incident: 
August 19, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

On 19 Aug 17, a patrol of the Tripoli municipal police in the north stopped a truck loaded with about 700 kilos of chicken waste from the area of Byblos. The truck driver was trying to throw it in Tripoli.

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.