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VAW: Foreigner harassed, exploitation of beggars
16-4-2019
In the latest incidents of violence against women and children, the Criminal Court of Beirut, headed by Judge Sami Sidqi, ruled yesterday against Ghassan T. (Syrian) on charges of harassing and attempting to rape Fabian M (French citizen) in Ashrafieh. The suspect was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to be deported from Lebanese territory for not settling his residence papers. The defendant was also required to pay all due fees and expenses to this effect. Noting, that the defendant chased his target who was accompanying her two boys into the elevator of the building where she lives and tried to harass her and rape her in front of her children but failed under her resistance. On the following day, the ISF General Directorate- Public Relations Department, announced in a statement, that as part of its efforts to curb the phenomenon of begging within the capital Beirut, and upon surveillance and follow-up, a Judiciary Police patrol managed on 12/4/2019 to arrest the suspect, W.T (Lebanese, born in 1997) when he was assigning beggars to different intersections in the city. (Al Mustaqbal, April 16, 2019)
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