Agnès Levallois: "The Lebanese are bloodless with this economic crisis"
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Lebanese civil defense members and passers-by rescue a man after shooting at demonstrators in Beirut on October 14, 2021. © AFP
By: Florent Guignard Follow
In Beirut, Thursday, October 14, demonstrations by the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal movements degenerated, leaving 7 dead and 32 wounded in the Tayouné district, a former Shiite-Christian demarcation line.
They were protesting against the judge in charge of the investigation into the explosion in the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020. Army forces have been deployed, but these events raise fears of a return to civil war as in 1975. The forces have been deployed. explanations by Agnès Levallois, vice-president of the Mediterranean-Middle East Research and Studies Institute and senior researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS).
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