9 People Charged with Assaulting Policemen Over Illegal Construction
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Government Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Tuesday charged nine people with assaulting security forces while they were seeking to end building violations in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
The National News Agency said that Saqr charged the nine people, including one detainee, for confronting members of the Internal Security Forces and assaulting them while they were seeking to curb building violations in the area of Ouzai.
Also Tuesday, Military Examining Magistrate Imad al-Zain questioned a man arrested on charges of resisting security forces trying to demolish illegal buildings at an area near the airport road.
Security forces on Monday curbed five building violations near the Cite Sportive in Beirut and demolished a house on the airport road.
In the past month, a crackdown on illegal construction has sparked fury among residents. The campaign has led to the injury of several people, including policemen, and the death of three people.
The ISF has taken strong measures against the transportation of construction material to the south by spreading inspection checkpoints at the entrances of several areas in the suburbs of the city of Tyre, As Safir daily said.
The newspaper said that prices of such material have increased sharply. The ton of cement rose from around 120 dollars to more than 200.
10 May 2011, 16:15
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These people should be taught a lesson.
They should know that is illegal to build on public property or private property that does not belong to them.
They keep claiming that they have too many children and that they need more space and rooms and houses for them. They want to do that for free.
This is not the law of the jungle. Every person taking the law into his own hands.
It is true that they have a right to ask the state to provide them with adequate housing opportunities at affordable prices. This is the way it should go.
