MTV Crew Attacked for Filming Illegal Building on Holy See Land in Ghobeiri
An MTV crew was assaulted on Friday in the Beirut southern suburb of Ghobeiri while it was filming a construction violation on land owned by the Holy See.
As reporter George Eid and cameraman Roger Hanna were starting to film the site, they were attacked by a number of locals who shouted at them and asked them to stop filming before shooting in the air to terrorize them.
"Had security forces (at the site) not valiantly intervened to defend us, the situation could've been much more tragic," Eid said later Friday in a report aired by MTV.
The crew managed to flee the site unhurt and headed towards a nearby location to continue filming the violation from afar. "But an official of a prominent party in the area prevented the crew from continuing its work under the alibi that filming needs to be authorized by the aforementioned party," Eid added.
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