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Conflict Incident Report

Men arrested in car theft and abduction case

Date of incident: 
March 21, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

The Internal Security Forces announced that it had arrested two Lebanese men who stole a car earlier this month in Nabatieh, abducting a young girl who was inside the car. H.R., born in 1990, and M.M., born in 1988, were arrested separately, on the Mais al-Jabal main road and in Taibeh in the south. The two admitted that they stole the Range Rover while passing through Nabatieh on March 11, after seeing that there was no driver inside. The car was owned by Dina Qanso, the mother of 7-year-old Evita Awada, who was in the car at the time. Awada was returned safely.

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.