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Conflict Incident Report

Security forces foil attempt to smuggle mobile phones into Roumieh prison

Date of incident: 
July 2, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

The Security forces managed to thwart an attempt to smuggle five mobile phone devices with their accessories and a number of flash memory cards and earphones.
The devices were professionally hidden inside a portable fridge that was meant to enter one of the prison buildings.

Primary category: 
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
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.