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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests wanted man for kidnapping and extortion

Date of incident: 
December 3, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

The ISF’s Counterterrorism Bureau has arrested a man in Tripoli, a statement from the agency reported Monday.

Following an investigation by the bureau and a judicial police unit, the ISF discovered the whereabouts of Lebanese M.A., born in 1989, and arrested him on Dec. 3 in Tripoli’s Qibbeh.

The suspect was wanted for kidnapping and extortion, as well as unlawful detention.

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.