After it became clear that a security-military group affiliated with the Dutch Army had been arrested in the Bir al-Abd area, Al-Akhbar learned that another incident had occurred a few days earlier, where the Resistance Security Service had arrested a foreigner in the Al-Kafaat area in the southern suburb of Beirut, while he was carrying out operations. Filming with his phone on a street. He would later be handed over to one of the official security services.
Security sources told:News“The man is of Spanish nationality, and he claimed during his interrogation that he lost his way and entered the area by mistake, so he was forced to use his cell phone to take several snapshots of the street he was on, with the intention of sending them to his friends at the Spanish Embassy in Beirut to send a car to pick him up from the place.” However, an examination of the man’s assets revealed that “the phone contains an advanced program that prevents access to the data.”
According to what Al-Akhbar newspaper reported, immediately after the news spread on a small level, communications and interventions began at the highest level to release him, especially by the embassy in Beirut, which obtained a judicial, security and political decision to release him, and the detainee was handed over the same day, as it became clear later. That “the man has a diplomatic passport.”
2024-03-02 05:56:00
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