Lebanese depositors, including one armed with a hunting rifle, broke into at least five banks on Friday to demand their trapped savings, a sign of growing chaos in the small Mediterranean nation amid a historic economic meltdown.
Some desperate depositors have resorted to force.
Abed Soubra later spoke to reporters inside the bank. His arm was bandaged but he didn’t say what caused the injury. He said the bank refused to honor an earlier offer of payout and he warned he would come back again and try to get his money by force.In another Beirut neighborhood, a man with a hunting rifle stormed the branch of LGB Bank and demanded his deposit. The man was identified as Jawad Sleem, a former contractor and a father of seven, who has been jobless for months.
A protest group that calls itself Depositors’ Outcry told a news conference on Thursday that there would be more break-ins. “This is a battle to liberate deposits,” the group said in a statement.
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