Two depositors storm Credit Libanais bank in Hazmieh
Two depositors, one of them armed with a gun and a gasoline bottle and the other wheelchair-bound, on Wednesday stormed Credit Libanais bank in Hazmieh, demanding their trapped U.S. dollar savings.
The wheelchair-bound depositor, Ibrahim Baydoun, later told al-Jadeed TV that the bank had agreed to give them both a sum of $55,000.
The armed depositor, Ali al-Saheli, is an Internal Security Forces retiree who had stormed BLC bank in Chtaura on October 4, demanding to take a $24,502 deposit. Saheli was arrested by security forces that day after a bank employee managed to seize the weapon from him. "Count the money, before one of you dies," Saheli said in an Oct. 4 video that he recorded with one hand while waving a gun in the other.
A depositors association said Saheli had repeatedly asked the bank to transfer $4,300 to his son who is studying in Ukraine, after he was expelled from his university and residence for being unable to pay tuition and rent. Saheli had also undergone medical checkups to determine if he could sell a kidney in order to secure the needed money, the association added.
Source: Naharnet
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