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Conflict Incident Report

LAF arrests 15 persons in el Mina- Tripoli

Date of incident: 
May 29, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)
Lebanese Civilians

On 29 May 16, at 18:00hrs, in El Mina near Al Shiraa square - Tripoli, a personal dispute over municipalities’ election erupted and escalated into using knives. LAF intervened and arrested fifteen (15) persons. No casualties were reported.
[First hand collected from the Lebanon Support team]

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.