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Police Arrest Human Traffickers in Bekaa

Date of incident: 
February 1, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
ISF(internal security forces)

The Internal Security Forces said Friday they have arrested a gang that smuggles Syrians to Lebanon and kidnaps them for the purpose of blackmailing their families.
An ISF communique said that police raided an encampment in the town of al-Rawda in the eastern Bekaa Valley on Tuesday and arrested four members of the gang.
ISF officers set free three Syrians who were held captive inside a tent in al-Rawda, it said.
The suspects admitted to police that they had smuggled the three captives, in addition to other Syrians, with a Lebanese accomplice, who remains at large.
The gang members blackmailed them by taking their identification cards and by telephoning their families in Syria to ask for cash amounting to 1,500 dollars to allegedly settle their residency issues legally.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/200749-police-arrest-human-trafficker...

Primary category: 
Raid
Secondary Category: 
Arrest/Detention
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.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
Border conflicts (Syrian border)
Violations, disputes and/or conflicts arising between rival armed groups along the Lebanese/Syrian borders which involve parties or militant groups from the Lebanese and Syrian side in both Lebanon and Syria. These conflicts also encompass transnational groups (such as faith-based regional groups, e.g. ISIS, al-Nusra Front) that cannot be considered as strictly Syrian, Lebanese or of any other national entity.
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