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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests car thief who held victim at gunpoint

Date of incident: 
October 31, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces Sunday announced the arrest of a man suspected of carrying out an armed car robbery near Rmeileh in the Chouf.

The suspect, identified as Syrian national  was arrested on Oct. 31 in Aramoun.

The victim, identified as Lebanese national , told the ISF he had been in his car in the Wadi al-Zaynieh area near Rmeileh when a person pointed a pistol at him, entered his car and forced him to drive to nearby Barja. There, the suspect forced the victim to enter a house where another person was present. They subsequently beat him, then stole his phone, an amount of money and the car,

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.