The General Directorate of Public Security announced in a statement: “On 20/2/2023, the news of the disappearance of Sheikh Ahmed Shuaib Al-Rifai spread in the city of Tripoli. As a result, the relevant agencies in the General Directorate of General Security took the necessary measures to reveal the fate of Sheikh Al-Rifai, and contact was made with Some references in the city of Tripoli and Akkar, in order to find out from them the latest data and circumstances that accompanied the disappearance, and to exchange information in this regard.The officials of the Public Security confirmed to everyone who contacted them that they did not know the whereregardings of Sheikh Al-Rifai’s disappearance, and that they had received instructions from the Director General of Public Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim. To follow up on this file, and make the necessary effort to uncover this issue.
However, three days following the disappearance, stances, statements, and tweets began to be issued by some people, including well-known and responsible personalities, including words that point the finger of accusation in the “kidnapping” of Sheikh Al-Rifai to the General Security, accompanied by expressions of hatred, hatred and incitement. sectarian, calls for arming and calls for movement in the squares.”
And the General Directorate of General Security added in its statement that “from its official position and its concern for the security of the Lebanese in particular and the residents of Lebanese territory in general, and all the people of the city of Tripoli and Akkar and all of the north know this, and they know the extent of the humanitarian and service relationship that binds them to it, and that its doors are always open to them; It condemns these positions issued by people who are supposed to have a great deal of responsibility in these difficult circumstances that the country is going through.The Directorate assures our people in the town of Qarqaf in Akkar that its son, Sheikh Al-Rifai, is not with it, and the General Security has nothing to do with this case, and it is seeking With all its capabilities to know his fate, and that the Director General, Major General Ibrahim, is ready to receive a delegation from the people of this dear town when they wish to do so.
As for those who deal with this humanitarian issue through sectarian incitement, spreading hatred, and making false accusations once morest public security, we will have an appointment with them in the judiciary to expose the falsity of their claims and fabrications.
