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Conflict Incident Report

Suspected clothes thief arrested

Date of incident: 
December 23, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces announced the arrest of a man suspected of stealing clothes from shops around Beirut, and urged victims of robberies to come forward.

ISF said the man, identified as Lebanese national M.Q., born in 1993, reportedly admitted to committing robberies at more than ten shops across Beirut by breaking off the electronic tags affixed to the clothes before leaving with them.

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.