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Conflict Incident Report

Three men arrested in Corniche el Mazraa

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

Beirut police managed to foil an abduction operation in the Beirut locality of Corniche-al-Marzaa, after three anonymous snatched a woman and attempted to flee, a communiqué by the Internal Security Forces indicated. In details, a citizen contacted the police on its hotline (112) to report a kidnapping operation of a woman in Barbour, Corniche-al-Mazraa, aboard a silver Infinity car. The police spotted the vehicle and ventured into chasing it. It finally intercepted it in Corniche-al-Mazraa. Three individuals were arrested. The woman was found handcuffed, with bruises all over her face and arms.

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.