A man in Lebanon grabbing a bank is called "hero": he just wants to take his own money

Jimu Journalist Sun Yan

Intern Wang Yizhen

According to the BBC, on the morning of August 11, local time, a man broke into a bank in Lebanon's capital Beirut with a gun. He deducted the staff as hostages and asked to take out the freezing deposit in his bank account.

AFP quoted a source as saying that at about 10:30 in the morning, the man broke into the bank with "a rifle and a barrel of flammable liquid" and threatened the staff to handle the withdrawal business.

Police arrived at the Incident Bank (Source: BBC)

Another source said that the man looked around 40 years old. "He poured gasoline one place, and locked the bank's front door, and the staff was deducted as a hostage."

The BBC quoted the Lebanon Broadcasting Corporation Television (LBC) reports that local government departments urgently dispatched police forces to surround the bank and negotiate with men.

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement and the man holding a gun was allowed to withdraw 35,000 US dollars. At present, the man has surrendered to the police, and all hostages have been released safely and no one has been injured. The report pointed out that government officials have not yet said the man will face allegations.

It is understood that the man holding a gun claims that he needs to take out the frozen deposit to pay his father's surgical fee. His brother said in an interview, "Brother has a deposit of $ 210,000 in the bank, and (he) just wants to receive $ 5,500 to pay the medical bill."

In recent years, Lebanon's economy has continued to be sluggish, high public debt, and high unemployment rates have remained high. Related data shows that at present, four -fifths of Lebanon's population falls into life constraints.

Due to the years of economic crisis, since 2019, the Lebanon government has adopted severe control measures for extracting foreign exchange. In order to prevent the public from crowding due to panic in the economic situation, major banks in Lebanon have also restricted ordinary households withdrawal withdrawal.

According to the French 24 TV station, on the same day, after the man with a gun broke into the bank, a group of supporters were gathered outside the bank, and even some people shouted "You are a hero".

"Similar things have happened repeatedly." George Hargie, the head of the Lebanon Banking Union, told reporters that in January this year, an angry customer broke into a bank in Beca Valley and hijacked dozens of hostages. Deposit.

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