Conflict Incident Report

Police arrest suspect smuggling Syrians into Lebanon

Date of incident:

April 17, 2017

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Syrian Civilians/Refugees

Lebanese Civilians

ISF Intelligence Branch

BEIRUT: Police arrested a Lebanese suspected of smuggling Syrians into Lebanon over the country's eastern border.

The Internal Security Forces said in a tweet that the Information Branch had also arrested 14 Syrians in a Mitsubishi vehicle in the Western Bekaa Village of Jub Jennin.

The Lebanese man, identified as S.Aa., and the 14 Syrians, were taken into custody.

Police had busted a human trafficking ring over the weekend in the Nahr al-Mott area, north of Beirut, that had arranged to bring Syrians into Lebanon illegally.

The Lebanese government estimates that around 1.5 million Syrian refugees live in unofficial camps around the country in deteriorating economic conditions – from which Lebanon was already suffering prior to the refugee crisis.

Source Link:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2017/Apr-17/402199-…

Primary category:

Arrest/Detention

Secondary Category:

Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling

Classification of conflict (primary):

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.

Classification of conflict(secondary):

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.

Back to map

You are here

Conflict Incident Report

Police arrest suspect smuggling Syrians into Lebanon

Related Incidents