Special envoy to Beirut.
A vintage Bentley and the wreckage of a Volkswagen Beetle with flat tires, vestiges of a vanished time, are parked on Badaro Street, Christian artery of the demarcation line, the former front line of the Lebanese civil war in Beirut .
The suction cup cars are parked at the foot of a building on the roof of which was posted, on October 14, a sniper during a demonstration which degenerated into deadly clashes.
Shiite militiamen targeted him.
The front of the top five floors is riddled with bullets, the apartment windows smashed.
Sheltered in the corridors and in the cellars, the occupants of the premises experienced a long period of anguish.
Infernal spiral
Their fear has not completely dissipated, judging by their wish to testify anonymously.
“The types of Amal
(a movement led by the Shiite leader Nabih Berri, Editor's note) laid
siege to the building
, says A., a fifty-something.
I immediately thought, like everyone else, of the past,
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