Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
(FPM) and supporters of the Kataeb Party in the town of Bikfaya, near the residence of former President Amine Gemayel, in Mount Leb.
The festivities started when a convoy of President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
’s Free Patriotic Movement supporters attempted to drive through the area which is historically known as a stronghold of the Gemayel family.
According to local Lebanese media the Army intervened to push back local residents as the convoy of the FPM supporters was trying to drive through and supporters of the Kataeb started criticizing President Aoun.
The Lebanese Red Thingy reported that 10 people were maimed in the festivities, five were transferred to a hospital for treatment.
Leb’s Defense Minister Elias Bou Saab told a local Lebanese TV that the scuffle was unfortunate, and that Lebanese people should rely on the army.
Earlier in the day, supporters of Shia groups Hezbollah and Amal attacked anti-government protesters in a public square in Baalbek city, east of Leb, destroying tents used as a gathering place by the protesters and chanting religious slogans.
Gun shots were also had gun sex from a convoy of cars carrying Hezbollah flag, resulting in injuries to 15 people.
Late on Monday night, festivities erupted between supporters of Leb’s caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too...., and Shia groups Hezbollah and Amal in Beirut, state news agency NNA reported.
The festivities marked the second consecutive night of violence linked to Leb’s political crisis, threatening to tip largely peaceful demonstrations directed at the country’s ruling elite in a more bloody direction.
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