القوى الامنية تحرر طفلين خطفا في الحدث وتوقف الوالدة وفريق تلفزيوني استرالي تورط في العملية
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حررت القوى الامنية طفلين من أب لبناني وأم استرالية خطفا أمس الاربعاء في منطقة الحدث بعد توقيف الوالدة وفريق تلفزيوني يضم أربعة استراليين تورطوا في عملية خطفهما الخميس.
وجاء ذلك بعد ساعات على اعلان سلطات كانبيرا ان فريقا اعلاميا "احتجز" في بيروت خلال تصويره برنامجا تلفزيونيا.
وافادت المديرية العامة لقوى الامن الداخلي بعد ظهر الخميس في تغريدة على موقع تويتر بأن "شعبة المعلومات اوقفت والدة الطفلين لاهالا ونوح الأمين اللذين كانا برفقتها في بيروت" بعد ساعات على اعلانها "توقيف اربعة أشخاص من الجنسية الأسترالية مشتبه بهم بخطف الولدين".
وبحسب وسائل الاعلام الاسترالية، فان المواطنة الاسترالية تدعى سالي فولكنر وهي طليقة مواطن لبناني، افادت وسائل الاعلام اللبنانية بانه يدعى علي الامين، وهما والدان لطفلين لاهالا (ست سنوات) ونوح (اربع سنوات).
وقال مصدر في وزارة الداخلية لوكالة "فرانس برس" ان "الام والطفلين باتوا في عهدة قوى الامن الداخلي بعد العثور عليهم داخل منزل في بيروت، في اطار عملية نوعية نفذتها بعد 24 ساعة على خطف الولدين".
وكان الطفلان قد خطفا صباح الاربعاء من منطقة الحدث جنوب بيروت فيما كانت جدتهما اللبنانية وعاملة لديها يصطحبانهما الى المدرسة. وافادت الجدة وفق قوى الامن بتعرضها لضربة على راسها خلال العملية التي تولى احد المنفذين تصويرها.
واوضح مصدر امني لبناني لفرانس برس ان "اربعة صحافيين تولوا تنفيذ عملية خطف الطفلين وتسليمهما الى والدتهما، بعدما تحولت قضيتهما في استراليا الى قضية راي عام".
وبثت وسائل اعلام لبنانية واسترالية شريط فيديو يظهر اقدام مجموعة من الاشخاص كانوا يستقلون سيارة توقفت في وسط الشارع، على خطف الطفلين بالقوة.
واكدت القناة التاسعة الاسترالية الخميس ان فريقا من برنامج "60 دقيقة"، "احتجز في بيروت" مضيفة "لن نعطي توضيحات اخرى، ونحن نعمل مع السلطات لكي يتم الافراج عنهم ويعودوا الى البلاد في اسرع وقت ممكن".
وقال متحدث باسم القناة ان الفريق موجود في "مركز للشرطة" وان القناة "لم تتمكن من التواصل معه خلال 15 ساعة".
وبحسب مجموعة الاعلام "فيرفاكس"، فان الفريق كان يصور عملية تقوم بها وكالة خاصة تنشط في مجال استعادة اطفال، بعد اتهام الام المتحدرة من مدينة بريزبان طليقها اللبناني بانه رفض السماح لطفليهما بالعودة الى استراليا بعد قضاء عطلة في لبنان.
وبحسب المصدر الامني، فان الوالدة "اتفقت مع برنامج 60 دقيقة الذي تبثه القناة التاسعة على المجيء الى لبنان لمساعدتها على انقاذ طفليها"، مرجحا انهم "كانوا ينوون الهروب عبر يخت يقوده قبطان يعمل في جمعية لانقاذ الاطفال في حالات مماثلة".
وانطلاقا من حصول هذه الحادثة في بيروت، فإن الموقوفين بحسب المصدر الامني "يخضعون للقانون اللبناني لان الفعل المرتكب حصل على الاراضي اللبنانية".
وقال وزير الداخلية نهاد المشنوق في وقت سابق ان "الفريق الأسترالي التلفزيوني متواطئ في خطف الطفلين" مضيفا قبل دخوله الى اجتماع للحكومة الخميس "هذه مسألة دبلوماسية" بين البلدين.
واكدت وزيرة الخارجية الاسترالية جولي بيشوب في بيان ان "وزارة الخارجية على اتصال مع القناة التاسعة بخصوص معلومات مفادها ان فريقا تلفزيونيا استراليا احتجز في لبنان".
واضافت "نسعى بشكل حثيث لتحديد مكان تواجده والتاكد من انهم بخير وعرضنا كل مساعدة قنصلية ممكنة".
وبحسب وسائل الاعلام الاسترالية، فان الفريق يضم الصحافية تارا براون والمنتج ستيفن رايس ومصور او اثنين.
08:05 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Another operation by the resistance 'inside' Lebanon adding further luster to lebanon's already impeccable international reputation.
09:41 ,2016 نيسان 07
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I retract my comment now the story is unfolding. But in the past most of these incidents if not all were carried out by the same people calling themselves resistance.
10:25 ,2016 نيسان 07
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don't be hard on yourself. The father who abducted the children is from ashraf neiss.
08:17 ,2016 نيسان 07
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The April Fools's joke continues..... year round.
Turkish Pilots were kidnapped.... No arrests were made.
Czech journalists were kidnapped..... No arrests were made.
Young children from well-to-do families were kidnapped for ransom ..... No arrests were made.
Australian TV crew kidnapped..... will any arrests be made?
The trend indicates otherwise.
09:33 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Abbas Ibrahim arrested them and they confessed to kidnapping charges;)
09:38 ,2016 نيسان 07
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who needs ministers when you have one of this caliber:
شبطيني: ملف سماحة ليس اصعب ملف، فمثله مثل بقية الملفات ولم اعطاؤه كل هذه الاهمية؟
09:52 ,2016 نيسان 07
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They have no right to come to Lebanon and kidnap these children. The mother should pursue legal international channels to recover her children, although I doubt she can.
Well done ISF.
10:14 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Justin
The ISF should also arrest the father who kidnapped the children from their mother in Australia thinking in coming to Lebanon he is above the law.
15:03 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Marcus, he did not "kidnap" his own children. He took his children to Lebanon, with the permission of their mother (his ex wife). He decided not to allow his children to return to Australia. Both the father and mother are in the wrong for the way they have treated their children! Imagine the roles were reversed and a Lebanese tv crew flew to Australia to film the kidnapping of the children on the streets of Brisbane...as strangers snatched the kids from the arms of their grandmother while being filmed by a Lebanese tv crew? What would be the reaction?
15:27 ,2016 نيسان 07
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if he did not kidnap his own children then she also did not kidnap her own children. Any excuse for people of your kind to justify these barbaric acts. When a father takes his children from the country and the environment they live in knowing he will not return them to their mother and country what do you call that; one way tourism?
15:41 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Marcus... He didn't kidnapp his own children because he had permission from the mother to travel to Lebanon! She organized mercenaries to kidnapp her children from the streets of Beirut without the permission of the father and by snatching the children from the arms of their grandmother!
The father not returning his children to Australia and their mother, is a custody dispute! The same thing happens everywhere around the world when mothers do it and it's called a custody dispute. In Australia, the mother has more rights then the father... In Lebanon it's the other way round. Same thing happened a few years ago when a father took his Canadian children to Lebanon and the mother tried to kidnap them from a Jounieh beach resort but were all arrested! If the father tried the same thing in Canada or Australia it would be kidnapping! Stop trying to justify your prejudice. I'm not condoning the fathers actions but both parents should be ashamed of themselves!
10:39 ,2016 نيسان 07
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NNA: Shia Robbers broke into a gas station and stole LL20 million in the town of Bferwa in Nabatiyeh.
14:13 ,2016 نيسان 07
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The Lebanese father, with the consent of the mother, took his children to Lebanon and has refused to allow their return. He did not kidnap them. These men then snatched the children from the arms of their grandmother, pushing her to the floor and shoving the children into a car are kidnappers! They have kidnapped the children. The children must of been terrified when strange men grabbed them! The grandmother must also be horrified... Everyone on this site should put aside the stupid sectarian hatred and acknowledge that these children must be serverly scarred by this ordeal. The 60 minutes crew should also reflect on their role while sitting in jail!
If this happened in Australia, with a Lebanese tv crew filming a kidnapping of the children on the streets of Brisbane, as the kidnappers snatch Australian children from the arms of their grandmother... The whole Australian media and public would be going crazy!
Poor children and shame on both parents for allowing this to happen
15:32 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Tex... The 60 minutes crew that were arrested were not the kidnappers but were filming the kidnapping. They knew it was going to happen. They were in Beirut in coordination with the mother and kidnappers to document. This has been a story in Australia and channel 9 since last November. Why else were they in Lebanon?
15:55 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Tex... It has been reported in Australia by Channel 9 (60 minutes channel) that they were attempting to film the "return of the children to their mother". They were there knowing that the mother was attempting to kidnapp her children and we're filming the reunion of the kids with their mum. The Mother and the children are now in hiding somewhere in Lebanon trying to return to Australia. The ISF have arrested the 60 minutes crew.
16:05 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Tex... My point is that both parents should be ashamed of themselves! It should always be about your children! Never allow your kids to go through such a thing. Would you allow this to happen to your kids? People on this site disgust me with their sectarian comments and call me a Shiite pig, (even though I'm a Christain) just for rejecting this kidnapping. In Australia, it's a big deal about how fathers have no rights to their children in a custody dispute. It's a very sad issue were some occasions, fathers have committed murder/suicides in their frustration with the laws. In Lebanon it's the opposite...the mothers have no rights! Both systems are seriously flawed and in the end the children suffer the most! As a father I feel very sad and sorry for the Children and disgusted with some of the sectarian commenters on this site!
16:35 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Tex... I'm not cheering the arrest of the 60 minutes crew nor do I think they did anything illegal... However they are very sensationalist journalist, and in Australia their is little public sympathy. There is absolutely no way they thought the mum won a Lebanese court case becoz it's not possible and they aren't that ignorant.... They knew exactly what they where there for.
The tv crew will ultimately be released soon, as they should. But it's important that Lebanon show that this is unacceptable and at least pretend Lebanon is still a sovereign nation! If this happen in the USA what would have been the reaction? I don't want to debate you for fun... This is about 2 children who must be terrified thanks to their selfish parents!
16:51 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Tex... Do you have children? I have a 4 year old boy and I love him just as much as his mother does. I think I am just as important to his development. No one can deny the importance of the mother to her child, especially an infant child! A BABY needs the mother more then the father yes! But if my wife tried to take my child away from me and the courts dictated I was less important then the mother, I would go crazy! Fathers have rights too! Just as the Lebanese law that strips the mothers rights to her child are wrong, so too are the laws that strips the fathers right to their children! Bottom line is that a loving and involved father and mother is always best for the children without exception!
16:53 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Any parent that puts themselves before their children's well being, are bad parents!
17:36 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Good one and very true... Also the 2nd most popular question to the father would probably be "can I have some more money?"
16:14 ,2016 نيسان 07
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http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/tara-brown-and-60-minutes-crew-detained-in-beirut/news-story/1f6a32ddc78805fe739083928d04e839
What the cctv footage of the kidnapping.
16:48 ,2016 نيسان 07
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I hope no one brings up the kidnapping of MEA employee Joseph Sader, who vanish into thin air on the airport road, we control and in full view of our security cameras, you know the ones we went to war to keep back in 2008. Oh and before you smart mouths ask us to hand over the tapes showing the kidnapping, we won't. It's a matter of national security, security and dignity of the Resistance, keeping Hajj Mohamad Raad's secret Kafta recipe secret from the Zionist and Takfiri enemy and as always we will cut the hand and tongue of anyone who even dares to ask, so there!
18:23 ,2016 نيسان 07
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Finally, the lebanese authorities rewarded the kidnapper and gave him back the children instead of sending them back with their mother.
02:07 ,2016 نيسان 08
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He kidnapped the kids and was rewarded by his lawless country. The mother made a mistake: she should have had him killed instead.
02:11 ,2016 نيسان 08
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you described and articulated ado.australia's version of the event very well.
05:46 ,2016 نيسان 08
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I saw the interview of the lebanese grandmother on TV. She talks as if she owns the children and how the mother is irrelevant in this situation. She said " the father decided the children will live in Lebanon and if the mother wants to see them she can come to Lebanon and see them even for one month!".
This lowlife kidnapped the children knowing he has the state of hezbollah behind him in Lebanon.
Instead of being arrested, as several posters said above the criminal father was rewarded and the mother ended up in jail.
Is Lebanon a joke?
05:48 ,2016 نيسان 08
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yeah, he dances around the point like a tango dancer afraid to admit the act was pure kidnapping.
14:03 ,2016 نيسان 11
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Why does Lebanon protect parental abductors? I don't get it. The father did abduct the children. I'm not saying Sally's method of getting them back was right. But what options did she have? Honestly? As an Aussie I have watched my brother go through the Lebanese legal system for a similar situation where the mother refused to return to Australia with the baby. The system was wrong, corrupt and made absolutely no sense whatsoever. I can imagine this situation driving anyone to the point of insanity. Shame on you Lebanon. Do right by the helpless children not the stupid selfish parent.
