The Lebanese woman, Sally Hafez, succeeded in taking her deposit from the Bank of Lebanon and the Diaspora, estimated at $13,000, following she entered it armed.
“Give me Egyptian women a dollar quickly”.. Scenes of depositors storming the BLOM BANK.. One of them demands that her money be spent on her sister’s cancer treatment #Arabic pic.twitter.com/j4J2ie0EUb
– Arabic (@AlArabiya) September 14, 2022
However, the Lebanese General Security later announced the arrest of the armed depositor, while information varied regarding the amount she had recovered from the bank.
Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath sources said that a number of wounded people fell outside the bank that was stormed in Beirut due to the stampede.
Sally justified her action through a video broadcast on her Facebook page, that the reason for what she did was to pay hospital costs for her sister who was dying inside, she said.
It was remarkable what Sally Al-Hafiz published on her Facebook page yesterday, as she wrote, “Oh my life, I promise you that you will travel, be treated and come back, stop and raise your daughter, if it seems to cost me my life on me and my enemies, may God heal you, O dearer than my soul.”
The depositor, Sally Hafez, threw gasoline on herself and threatened to set herself on fire if she did not hand over her deposit to treat her sick sister.
Video footage broadcast by the channel on its Twitter account showed a woman carrying a weapon inside the bank.
The Lebanese Depositors Association said that a bank was stormed in the Aley area in Mount Lebanon Governorate. The association added, through its Twitter account, that Bank Med (Mediterranean Group) Aley branch “fell in front of depositors.”
This comes shortly following the depository stormed a branch of BLOM Bank (BLOM) in the capital, Beirut.
An indication that the phenomenon of depositors storming banks and forcing employees to release part of their seized deposits is repeated, the last of which was last August, when one of the depositors stormed the Federal Bank branch in Hamra Street in the capital, Beirut, demanding to obtain his deposit to treat his sick father. He was able to get a portion of it following his arrest for days.
A group of depositors from the “Cry of Depositors” Association stormed the “Blom Bank” bank, the Sodeco branch, and took a number of hostages.
According to the depositors’ association, Sharaf El-Din received $30,000 “Fresh” before turning himself in to the security forces.
