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Conflict Incident Report

Man accused of assault, posing as ISF officer arrested

Date of incident: 
December 16, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces has arrested a man who was accused of kidnapping and assaulting a man while posing as a lieutenant at the ISF’s Interpol office, the agency said in a statement Sunday.

The suspect was identified as M.F., a Lebanese national born in 1988. He was arrested in Nabatieh’s Jarjou along with an accomplice, identified as A.J., a Lebanese national born in 1990.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
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.