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Conflict Incident Report
Police arrest Syrian impersonating lawyer
Date of incident:
June 22, 2017
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
East Lebanon police arrested a Syrian for impersonating a lawyer, state media reported. The National News Agency said that said that the 27-year-old Aa.D. was arrested by State Security’s Regional Directorate in the east Lebanon Bekaa governorate.
The suspect allegedly claimed "to be a lawyer and an employee of the Syrian refugee commission to conduct scam, theft and fraud operations." Lebanon has been strained by the influx of more than a million refugees from the civil war in neighboring Syria, who make up about a quarter of Lebanon’s population. Lebanese security forces regularly raid Syrian refugee camps across Lebanon in search of gunmen and militants as part of an effort to clamp down on dormant extremist cells operating the country."
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.