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Conflict Incident Report

Three arrested o drug charges

Date of incident: 
December 27, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces announced Thursday that three men had been arrested on drug-related charges and that police seized a raft of contraband from the suspects. The agency did not detail whether the three men’s cases were connected. The ISF’s Anti-Drug Bureau arrested Lebanese citizens R.Z., born in 1989, K.Aa., born in 1988, and A.Z., born in 1985, in Dbayeh, Ballouneh and Faraya, respectively.

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category: 
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Power & governance conflicts
Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.