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Conflict Incident Report

Large Quantity of Captagon seized at Beirut port

Date of incident: 
December 3, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
ISF Intelligence Branch

The Internal Security Forces on Monday indicated that its Information Branch had seized 3.3 million Captagon pills to be exported to an Arab destination via Beirut seaport.

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category: 
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Power & governance conflicts
Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.