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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests man for impersonating officer, tricking women

Date of incident: 
December 12, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces has arrested a man charged with impersonating a security officer and luring women and girls into having relations with him, a statement from the agency reported Wednesday.

The ISF Information Branch arrested Lebanese national M.Sh., born in 1992, on Dec. 11 and seized his cell phone.

The suspect reportedly admitted to impersonating a first lieutenant with the aim of getting close to and propositioning more than ten women and girls. The ISF discovered that the suspect had previously been charged with the same crime.

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.