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Conflict Incident Report

Police detain north Lebanon man threatening to kill wife

Date of incident: 
November 6, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

Police Sunday detained a man who threatened to kill his wife with a rifle after she fled with her children to her parents’ house in northern Lebanon.

A statement issued by the Internal Security Force said that the Zgharta police station received information that J.M. was being threatened by her husband, who showed up with an unidentified man outside her parents’ house in Zgharta.

He was seeking to take his children by force.

Police officers managed to pursue the man and raid a house that he took refuge in and arrested him.

He was identified as 34-year-old S.H.

Police searched his vehicle and confiscated two Kalashnikov rifles, seven ammunition belts, 200 bullets and two hand grenades

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category: 
Gender Based Violence [inc. sexual violence]
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.