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Conflict Incident Report

Former candidate to legislative elections arrested for links to drug smuggling

Date of incident: 
November 6, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

The Information Branch have arrested former candidate to the legislative elections for the Alawite seat in Tripoli, H.S., for involvement in the smuggling attempt of narcotics that had been botched recently in Tripoli seaport. 

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.