Eighteen Lebanese army soldiers were wounded in confrontations with protesters yesterday, in northern Lebanon and Mount Lebanon, while carrying out security operations and opening roads.
A statement issued by the Lebanese Army Command said that, “On 2/1/22020, a number of young men in front of the Electricity Company in the Deir Ammar area (north Lebanon) threw stones and empty bottles from the army during the implementation of a security operation In the area, 12 soldiers were wounded and three mechanisms were destroyed.
The statement added that "in the Beddawi region (north Lebanon), while a patrol of the army reopened the road to facilitate movement of movement, a number of protesters threw stones at the patrol members, which led to the injury of a soldier, and some of the communication devices were broken."
The army statement continued that, “On 3/1/22020, an army patrol arrested four people at the Nahr al-Kalb highway (Mount Lebanon), for stirring riots and throwing stones at the soldiers, wounding five soldiers, and seized a laser and a communication device. "TYT type and a large number of knives and large firecrackers, for use against the forces of the army when cutting the road."
On the other hand, the popular protests continued yesterday, in a number of Lebanese regions in northern Lebanon, for the 79th consecutive day to demand accountability for the corrupt. A number of protesters protested in front of the official departments and institutions in the city of Halba (North Lebanon), chanting slogans calling for "holding corrupt people accountable and meeting the demands of the movement", and asked the employees to stop work.
The protesters in Akkar governorate (North Lebanon) cut many of the main roads in the governorate, as did the protesters cut the Al-Abda-Aboudia road (North Lebanon). A number of protesters protested in front of the "Fransabank" bank (in Beirut), after calling for a demonstration in front of it, under the slogan "Not payers".
On the other hand, a Lebanese judicial source said that the discriminatory public prosecutor "will summon" the auto magnate Carlos Ghosn next week to listen to him, the day after which he received the "red emblem" from Interpol, after he fled from Japan. The source added that "Ghosn will be summoned on Tuesday or Wednesday to be heard in the discriminatory public prosecutor, after receiving the red notice that includes an arrest warrant issued against him, based on the crimes that the Japanese judiciary accuses of committing." He pointed out that the judiciary "is obligated to take this action and listen to Ghosn, but he has the discretion to arrest or leave him."
Popular protests continue in a number of regions in northern Lebanon for the 79th day in a row.