Detainees Riot at Baabda Justice Palace
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Several detainees armed with knives and sharp objects rioted inside a Justice Palace courtroom in Baabda on Wednesday amid reports that two of them have escaped.
The riot erupted after the judge heading the trials of the fourteen suspects, who were transferred from Roumieh prison, suspended the session over his failure to keep order in the criminal court.
LBC TV said murder suspect Hussein Hammoud set off the riot by breaking the windows of the courthouse.
The National News Agency reported however that two other suspects, G. Zoaiter and A. Younis, started the riot and the rest of the suspects joined them.
The prisoners began to inflict self-harm by the broken glass, forcing the judges and families out of the courtroom.
LBC said Judge Dany Shrabieh began negotiating with them to hear their demands after they asked to talk with someone from the prosecutor’s office. Shrabieh was later joined by Judge Claude Karam.
According to the National News Agency, two prisoners managed to escape.
It added that the prisoners were returned to Roumieh prison despite attempts by their families, who were at the scene, to obstruct their path.
The injured were treated on the scene by the Red Cross and none of them were transferred to hospitals as some of the families had reported.
27 June 2012, 15:12
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Government by Aoun and Nasrallah has brought Lebanon a culture of criminal theft and illegal guns in the streets used to kill people rob banks, hold hostages, etc. Outlaws put in charge of a government which is to maintain order by enforcing the rule of law cannot work. Outlaws, by their nature do not derive their power from adhereing to the rules of the system, therefore they have no loyalty to it nor an intent to keep the rules of law sacred and enforced. And so, we have this culture in Lebanon which is alien to Lebanon and to Lebanese.
Even during the war when there was no government, the Lebanese had an order about their daily lives that was self enforced without a gandarme or ISF. What we have today is worse than that.
27 June 2012, 18:09
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mowaten,
another comment denying the reality and obviuosly incorrect!
it is the spread of weapons with illeterate people that is producing such problems. once they have weapons they feel they are in power and able to do what they want.
for your information, around 40% of shias are against hizbushaitan these days and disagree with the trend of things, and you will start hearing about it soon in the news.
hizbushaitan are feeling the grunt of their own people and are clinging to keep control of the country....
27 June 2012, 16:19
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"We will cut the hands than dares to lay a finger on these saints" - Nawaf Moussawi
27 June 2012, 16:51
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Dammit mowaten put down that netbook and hand me the tire, otherwise NO KA3EK FOR U!!
28 June 2012, 05:50
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What do you expect when people in the government support the killing of Lebanese military and assassination of ministers, prime ministers and journalists?
