More than 30 inmates escaped early Sunday in Beirut by escaping through a window after smuggling a tool into their prison, security and judicial sources reported.
After this escape in the Adlieh district, near the capital's courthouse, "
they were immediately ordered to arrest them and an investigation was opened
," said the Internal Security Forces in a statement.
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An AFP correspondent saw the security forces deployed in the neighborhood on Sunday morning.
According to a judicial source close to the investigation, who spoke on condition of anonymity, “
some detainees are Lebanese and other foreigners, notably Syrians and Palestinians
”.
According to a security source, they were probably helped by one or more accomplices outside the prison.
If today Adlieh prison depends on the penitentiary authority of Lebanon, it was formerly held by the General Security and human rights defenders there regularly denounced abuses against Syrian refugees and foreign migrant domestic workers. detained.
These escapes come as the economic crisis that has plunged more than 80% of Lebanese below the poverty line has forced many members of the security forces to resign to find better incomes.
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This unprecedented crisis has further aggravated the state of Lebanese prisons where overcrowding and lack of medical care regularly provoke riots.