Another bank held up in Lebanon despite heightened security
Two more angry Lebanese depositors have taken guns into their banks to demand their trapped savings.
Two men entered a Lebanese bank with a gun today demanding access to their savings.
What happened: Ali al-Saheli and Ibrahim Baydoun stormed a branch of Credit Libanais in the town of Hazmieh, Mount Lebanon. Saheli, an Internal Security Forces retiree, was armed with a handgun and a Molotov cocktail. They demanded tens of thousands of dollars from their own deposits, according to Lebanese media reports.
Saheli reportedly held up a bank in October as well and was arrested and released.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported that the men made off with $50,000.
