Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests head of human smuggling gang

Date of incident:

December 26, 2018

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Internal Security Forces (ISF)

Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces Saturday announced the arrest of the head of a gang that smuggled people across the Lebanese-Syrian border.

The ISF said that the suspect, identified as Lebanese national F.A.N., born in 1989, was “the mastermind behind one of the most dangerous networks of human smuggling along the Lebanese-Syrian border.” He was arrested on Nov. 26 at the Dahr al-Baidar checkpoint in Zahle

Source Link:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2018/Dec-03/470710-…

Primary category:

Arrest/Detention

Secondary Category:

Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling

Classification of conflict (primary):

Border conflicts (Syrian border)

Violations, disputes and/or conflicts arising between rival armed groups along the Lebanese/Syrian borders which involve parties or militant groups from the Lebanese and Syrian side in both Lebanon and Syria. These conflicts also encompass transnational groups (such as faith-based regional groups, e.g. ISIS, al-Nusra Front) that cannot be considered as strictly Syrian, Lebanese or of any other national entity.

Classification of conflict(secondary):

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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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests head of human smuggling gang