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Conflict Incident Report

Authorities arrest two for vehicle thefts

Date of incident: 
April 4, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

BEIRUT: The Internal Security Forces  announced the arrest of two individuals for multiple vehicle thefts.

The suspects were identified as 30-year-old Syrian H.S. and Lebanese H.M., 25.

The ISF said that the two men had been arrested separately Monday and Tuesday in the suburbs of Haret Hreik, south of Beirut and Sin al-Fil, north of the capital, respectively.

H.S. admitted to stealing eight vehicles, while H.M. admitted to lifting 15 vehicles.

Both admitted to having had accomplices in their crimes and that the stolen vehicles had been taken to the eastern Bekaa Valley.

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.