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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrest 5 for stealing motorcycles

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

BEIRUT: Internal Security Forces  announced the arrest of five individuals for allegedly stealing motorcycles.

The ISF added that the police arrested the five individuals were arrested in Minyeh, located near Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city.

They only revealed three of five’s nationalities, who were Lebanese.

Their ages ranged between 17 and 23 years-old.

The ISF confiscated six motorcycles, as well as other motorcycles that they have resold, after security forces have monitored them.

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.