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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests 6 for armed robbery

Date of incident: 
December 4, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
ISF Intelligence Branch
Lebanese Civilians
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces’ Information Branch has arrested six people suspected carrying out a string of armed robberies in the district of Aley.

The suspects were identified as Syrian national and Lebanese nationals

The suspects used a car and a motorcycle to carry out several armed robberies in the city of Aley and in Souk al-Gharb and Qabr Shmoun.

An ISF force managed to arrest the suspects last week. They were found in possession of Salvia, a rifle, a gun and gloves.

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.