Lebanon.- Day after day, dozens of robberies at different establishments are recorded at the international level, with banks being the favorite targets of those who love what is foreign. On this occasion, a woman has gone viral on social networks after having robbed a bank branch with a toy gun and having threatened to set herself on fire, managing to take all her savings.
Sometimes desperate circumstances lead people to take desperate actions they never thought to commit, such was the case of a woman in Lebanon who decided to rob the bank where he had his savings in order to pay for a relative’s cancer treatment.
It was through the Facebook social network where the video was published in which you can see the activist Sali Hafez enter, last Wednesday, a financial establishment and take as hostages the people who were at that time in the place.
During the events that took place in a branch of Sodecoin the Lebanese capital, the woman, along with a group of activists, threatened to set herself on fire if the bank refused to return her savings, which she said she would use to pay for her sister’s cancer treatment. this in the face of the blockade of the withdrawal of funds from banking entities in the eastern country.
“I am here to claim my rights,” the activist mentions in the video. After that, the female fled the site through a hole made in a glass wall.
After that, Hafez herself declared before the Lebanese media that she managed recover between 13 thousand and 20 thousand dollars that his family had entered the financial institution.
To make the “assault” more realistic, the woman sprayed fuel on herself when she was inside the branch, threatening to catch fire if the employees did not meet her demands, according to witness statements cited by L’Orient. Jour.
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It should be noted that, hours after the act carried out by the Lebanese activist, another man tried to rob another bank in Aley in order to demand the delivery of his savings, but was arrested by the authorities, although no further details have been given about the attack. done
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