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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests one of its 'most wanted' in Beirut

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

One of the Internal Security Forces’ “most wanted” criminals was in police custody Friday after his arrest in southern Beirut for a number of crimes, including forming an armed gang, an official ISF statement reported.
Authorities arrested the man, identified as 21-year-old Lebanese citizen M.Aa., near Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium after “investigations and follow-up,” the ISF said.
The man was among the ISF’s “most wanted” criminals, accused of forming an armed gang, robbery, shooting at police and impersonating security personnel, among other infractions.
A judicial investigation into the suspect has begun, the ISF said.

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.