These incidents are no longer foreign to Lebanon. In a new foray, Lebanese MP Cynthia Zarazer held a sit-down internal consumption In the north of Beirut, after asking for his deposits, to no avail.
According to information, Zarazir entered the Byblos Bank branch in Antelias to request a portion of its deposit to carry out an operation.
After the bank refused to hand over the amount, the politician announced a sit-in inside the building until he handed over a portion, in the amount of $ 8,000.
An unprecedented crisis
Interestingly, Lebanon witnessed several similar incidents last month, starting with the assault on the young woman, Sally Hafez, a bank in Beirut, threatening with weapons, which later turned out to be just a game, to demand l access to his money that the bank had illegally seized, with the aim of treating his sister with head cancer, before getting $ 13,000.
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Then a second depositor entered the BLOM BANK branch in Beirut, threatening and demanding his money back. This was followed by a new depositor who stormed a branch of Lebanon and the Gulf Bank also in Beirut, and another in the Hamra area, where an angry citizen forcibly entered the Bank branch. Lebanese French.
The city of Chehim in Mount Lebanon Governorate also witnessed another foray by a security element.
Interestingly, Lebanese banks have been preventing most depositors from withdrawing their savings since 2019, while the economic crisis has worsened, leaving many citizens unable to pay for their basic daily needs.
In 2020, the country’s economic and living situation collapsed in an unprecedented way, the value of the local currency worsened and the price rose, amid high unemployment rates, amid expectations that the number of bank breakers would increase in the coming weeks. after the worsening of the crisis, the dollar crossed the threshold of 37,000 pounds on the black market.
These intrusions have recently opened the door to questions about the recurrence of this phenomenon and several depositors have resorted to forcibly recovering some of their money, after banks deliberately seized them without legal justification.
