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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests car thieves in Bekaa

Date of incident: 
December 7, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces’ Judicial Police has arrested two brothers for stealing cars and selling them on.

The police arrested Syrian Z.Aa., born in 1995, in Baalbeck’s Tamnin. Upon investigation, he reportedly admitted to stealing Hyundai and Kia cars with his brother.
Z.Aa. said they had stolen 11 cars from Zahle and neighboring towns, and later sold them in Baalbeck’s Brital.A Judicial Police force later arrested his brother, identified as Aa.Aa., born in 1991

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category: 
Robbery/Trespassing
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.