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Conflict Incident Report

Man who faked own kidnapping arrested

Date of incident: 
December 27, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
ISF Intelligence Branch

The Internal Security Forces announced in a statement. on Dec. 26, M.Aa. informed Zgharta’s Majdlaya police station that his brother, W.Aa., had left home around 5 p.m. and not returned. M.Aa. said he had received a text message from W.Aa. asking him for $10,000 to pay a ransom, the statement said. “At 8 a.m. on Dec. 27, a patrol unit from the ISF’s Information Branch arrested the suspect, W.Aa., in Majdlaya, and he was in good health,” it added. The ISF said that during investigations, it came to light that W.Aa. had “fabricated his kidnapping as a result of financial difficulties.”

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.