VAW: Blackmailing women in Baabda, Tripoli

The ISF Directorate General announced in a statement yesterday that the CyberCrime and Intellectual Property Protection Bureau received two complaints filed to the Beirut Public Prosecutor by a Palestinian woman against an unknown for charges of sexual extortion. The statement went on to say, that upon surveillance, the suspect’s whereabouts were detected and he was arrested on 17-12-2019 in the Hadat neighborhood of Baabda. In the details, the suspect (Y. A, Egyptian, born in 1990) had installed a camera in the plaintiff’s (his roommate) room to take intimate snapshots which he used for sexual and financial blackmailing. The second complaint, the ISF statement said, was filed by the father of a girl (born in 2005) against an unidentified person for charges of the blackmailing and seduction of a minor. The identity of the suspect was revealed (F.A, Lebanese, born in 1996) and he was arrested in Abi Samra- Tripoli on 16-12-2019 where he admitted his actions. He confessed that he impersonated a woman and contacted underage girls via whatsapp luring them into taking nude pictures. And in the case of refusal, he threatened to publish his stock of photos and videos, or report to their parents. (Al Mustaqbal, December 19, 2019)