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Conflict Incident Report

Woman arrested for plotting to have husband killed

Date of incident: 
February 20, 2018
Death toll: 
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Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

A Lebanese woman was arrested after she allegedly attempted to hire two strangers to kill her husband, a statement from the Internal Security Forces reported Tuesday.

The woman, identified as M.D., born in 1987, allegedly offered two Syrian men - N.B., born in 2000, and M.I., born in 1994 - $10,000 to kill her husband. She also offered to rent a car and buy a machine gun for them to carry out the job, according to the statement

When N.B. and M.I. learned of her plans, they immediately notified the targeted Lebanese husband, F.K., born in 1980, who then agreed to move somewhere safe while the men tricked the woman into thinking they were carrying out the operation.

After paying N.B. and M.I. the agreed amount in cash and fake checks on Feb. 12, she reported her husband missing in order to brush off potential suspicion.

While hiding out, F.K. filed a complaint Thursday against his wife and accomplices, which lead to their arrest.

During interrogations, the woman reportedly admitted to attempting to hire the two as hitmen and instructing them to burn her husband’s body and dispose of his remains in a valley in the Chouf to conceal the evidence, the report said.

The ISF also said that M.D. confessed to having an affair with a Lebanese national named as T.D., born in 1987, and sharing her plans to murder her husband with him.

All of four suspects have been arrested by the police unit in Baabda and investigations are underway.

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.