Sit-in in Tripoli over Mysterious Death of Young Man in Dahiyeh
A sit-in was held Tuesday at Tripoli's Abdul Hamid Karami Square by the relatives and friends of a young Tripolitan man who was found dead several days ago in Dahiyeh.
“The relatives and friends of the victim Samer Kanj staged a sit-in at the Abdul Hamid Karami Square in Tripoli and blocked the main road outside the serail in protest at the death of their son in (Beirut's) southern suburb in mysterious circumstances,” state-run National News Agency reported.
“Protesters carried banners urging the state and security agencies to unveil the circumstances of the incident,” said NNA.
Meanwhile, MTV reported that Kanj “was in a love affair with a Shiite girl and was found dead after he was thrown from the fifth floor of a building.”
The crime happened “after the girl asked him to meet her in Dahiyeh on Sunday,” MTV added.
The TV network quoted relatives of Kanj as saying that there had been a dispute between his family and the aforementioned girl and that their families did not approve of the relationship due to sectarian reasons.
In an interview with MTV, Kanj's friend Nazih said the sit-in's objective was to demand an end to “killing, strife and chaos.”
Nazih said Samer's killers enjoy a certain protection, noting that “no one has been arrested and police spoke with his family in an inappropriate manner, telling them he was installing a satellite television cable at 3:00 a.m.”
“We are still living in the hell of the past,” Nazih lamented, recalling the civil war days.
Before his death, Kanj announced on his Facebook page that he had received a threat.
“I have received a threat from (the phone number) 01771100 from a man called A. Shuman who claimed that he belongs to AMAL Movement, and it turned out that this number belongs to the Holiday Inn Hotel which is near Speaker Nabih Berri's mansion (in Verdun) … and it turned out that he is a guard 'dog' and I will meet him because the state is absent,” said Kanj's message.
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