Conflict Incident Report

Arrest Warrants for Two who Tried to Assault Airport Customs Chief

Date of incident:

September 19, 2015

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Beirut Airport Security (BAS)

Armed militants

First Military Examining Magistrate Judge Riad Abou Ghida issued Friday arrest warrants for Mohammed and Tarek al-Sabeaa on charges of “assaulting and insulting Customs agents at the Rafik Hariri International Airport,” state-run National News Agency reported.
It said Abou Ghida made his decision after interrogating the two men.
On Saturday, NNA said the army arrested the two men after an attempt to assault the customs chief at the airport.
Several individuals including Tarek Hisham al-Sabeaa and another man from the same family stormed into the office of the customs chief at the airport Samer Diaa and tried to assault him, NNA said.
It added that the police airport had seized smuggled merchandise that the assailants were trying to exchange for shoe insoles.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/190119-arrest-warrants-for-two-who-tr...

Primary category:

Arrest/Detention

Secondary Category:

Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling

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.

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Arrest Warrants for Two who Tried to Assault Airport Customs Chief