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ISF arrests another alleged sextortionist
Date of incident:
September 28, 2018
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians
The Internal Security Forces arrested a man in southern Lebanon for allegedly using sensitive pictures a woman had sent him to blackmail and extort money from her, the agency said in a statement Thursday. The ISF arrested the man, identified as Lebanese citizen S.M.B., born in 1997, in Tyre earlier this week. He reportedly confessed to having extorted a woman for an undisclosed sum of money by threatening to publish the pictures on Facebook.
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.
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