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Conflict Incident Report

Debbieh Church robbed

Date of incident: 
August 26, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons

Debbieh’s Saint Maroun Church was robbed Sunday, the state-run National News Agency reported.

A number of politicians and party representatives issued statements or tweeted condemning the incident in the town, which is located in Mount Lebanon’s Iqlim al-Kharroub area. MP George Adwan asked security forces to track down the suspects and refer them to the judiciary, “to punish them for assaulting a sacred place,” the NNA quoted him as saying. MP Mohammad Hajjar echoed Adwan’s request, and MP Bilal Abdullah described the incident as “an assault on coexistence.”

Primary category: 
Robbery/Trespassing
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.