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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests three suspects in ATM fraud

Date of incident: 
November 7, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons

The Internal Security Forces has arrested three men suspected of using card reading devices to glean credit and debit account information at ATMs to steal money.

According to the statement, the ISF was alerted to the group’s activities after a theft on Nov. 7, in which two of the suspects – Bulgarian nationals identified as K.R., born in 1979, and N.A., born in 1994 – placed a skimming device on an ATM at a bank in Kezrouan’s Ghazir.

Primary 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.