Inside a Lebanese bank, a woman screams for her salary. A man pounds his fist on the marble counter, demanding the teller release $200. In crisis-hit Lebanon, this is the new normal.

Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who fled to Lebanon to avoid a Japanese trial, had a second French passport, a source said Thursday, as authorities raided his Tokyo residence as part of a probe into the embarrassing security lapse.

Ghosn, who faced multiple charges of financial misconduct that he denies, won bail in April but with strict conditions -- including a ban on overseas travel.

Lebanon’s protests ongoing since October, regained momentum with the start of the year on Thursday pressing demands for a corruption-free country, as the new PM-designate grapples with efforts to form a much-delayed government amid political dispute over its form.

Lebanese courts are full of dozens of lawsuits demanding that banks pay account holders the sums of money they need to withdraw, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat reported on Thursday.

The first lawsuit was filed in November by Judge of Urgent Matters Ahmed Mezher against a bank in Nabatieh.The Judge ordered the release of 129 thousand euros, without delay and under penalty of coercive fine of 20 million pounds for each day of delay.

A young man of Lebanese descent will get engaged to U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany on January 11, according to invitations sent out by their two families.

“The story of Michael Charbel Boulos and Tiffany Donald Trump started in the summer of 2018, as they were vacationing on the Mykonos Island in Greece,” Lebanon’s MTV reported.

Disagreements over the representation of the various sects are still hindering the formation of Hassan Diab’s government, media reports said.

“A Druze obstacle emerged yesterday after (Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid) Jumblat and other (Druze) officials criticized that they will be represented through the nonessential environment portfolio,” An-Nahar newspaper reported on Sunday.

Celebratory gunfire wounded five people in Lebanon on New Year’s Eve, the Internal Security Forces said on Wednesday.

“Five people were injured in al-Qobbeh, el-Mina and al-Nour Square (in Tripoli), and on the Sayyed Hadi Nasrallah Highway and Choueifat” in Beirut’s suburbs, an ISF statement said.

By jumping bail, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who had long insisted on his innocence, has now committed a clear offense and can never return to Japan without going to jail.

"So he now has burned his bridges to Japan," Stephen Givens, a lawyer and expert on Japan's legal and corporate systems, said Wednesday. "This is going to end in basically a stalemate with him spending the rest of his life in Lebanon."

The usually staid Japanese media lambasted the "cowardly" Carlos Ghosn on Wednesday, after the tycoon jumped bail and fled to Lebanon to avoid trial in Japan.

Former car magnate Carlos Ghosn's stunning departure from Japan, where he was facing trial on financial misconduct charges, poses numerous questions as to where his story goes next.