Mashnouq: Future Attempt to Assault State Institutions Will be Dealt with by Force
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Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq emphasized on Wednesday that future attempts by protesters to occupy and rally at state institutions will be “dealt with immediately.”
He announced in a press conference to address the recent civil society protests: “Future attempts will be dealt with by force.”
He stressed however that the security forces “have preserved and will continue to preserve the people's right to hold peaceful demonstrations.”
“The security forces are bound by their duty to protect the state and public property,” he added.
“We will exercise all efforts to peacefully prevent rallies at state institutions,” continued Mashnouq.
Furthermore, he condemned the insults made by protesters against the security forces, especially those who accused them of “lacking dignity”.
“We say that such remarks are an assault against them,” he declared.
“I salute the protesters who formed a human chain to act as a barrier against those attacking the security forces,” Mashnouq added.
“The security forces are the same as the poorest of citizens in their need for electricity, water, and the resolution of the waste management crisis,” he remarked.
“The security forces are of the people and those who see otherwise are blind to national causes,” he noted.
“Are the protesters the only people with problems? The security forces have families and needs as well,” he said before reporters.
“There are more wounded among them than the protesters and we have not heard a word of sympathy towards them,” he said in reference to accusations that the demonstrators were assaulted.
He reiterated his acknowledgment that security forces used “excessive force” during an August 22 rally, saying that a number of them have been disciplined for their shortcomings.
Mashnouq concluded by stressing that the election of a new president and approval of a new parliamentary electoral law will serve as the beginning of resolving Lebanon's pending problems.
Earlier, the minister acknowledged that some security members on Wednesday made “limited mistakes” while they were forcing protesters out of the Environment Ministry the day before, As Safir newspaper reported.
“The protesters were given more than one chance to evacuate the government building,” he said.
“Some security members made limited mistakes when they were forcing the protesters to willingly evacuate the building, where a stampede took place” he added while asserting that no serious injurers were reported which can be proven through the Red Cross reports.
On Tuesday, protesters from the “You Stink” movement occupied the eighth floor of the Environment Ministry to demand the resignation of Minister Mohammed al-Mashnouq.
The activists said police had beaten some of them and the Red Cross said medics treated several for wounds sustained in scuffles with security forces.
Imad Bazzi, one of the organizers of the "You Stink" campaign, said police had shoved a dozen activists from the building shortly after the rest had been driven out.
The same movement had led in recent weeks rallies in protest against the ongoing waste management crisis that started with the closure of the Naameh landfill in July.
Politicians have so far failed to find an alternative for it.
The civil society campaign has gained thousands of followers, evolving into a movement protesting against the corrupt political class.
M.T./D.A.
Y.R.
02 September 2015, 08:55
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Stop giving mixed signals to the security forces and undermining them. You task them to eject the occupying demonstrators and then you sit in your plush office and criticize. How do you expect the security forces to eject the unwilling demonstrators from the ministry... by hugs and sweet words.?!
02 September 2015, 12:08
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“Some security members made limited mistakes when they were forcing the protesters to willingly evacuate the building"
Please someone explain to me how you can be "forcing" people to "willingly" do something? This guy is definitely high on something, and it's obviously not the good stuff.
02 September 2015, 12:14
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@mowaten E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T. Still laughing since the day you declared with a straight face you were a shiaa atheist and also a member of hezbollah with only one account. I think i will also continue to laugh at your statement "This guy is definitely high on something". Thank you Thank you
02 September 2015, 12:35
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how come naharnet tolerates these retards which are obviously only here to derail every debate? every single article is spammed with the exact same copy-pasted off-topic meaningless BS, and yet somehow they are allowed to continue.
02 September 2015, 12:36
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how come naharnet tolerates these retards which are obviously only here to derail every debate? every single article is spammed with the exact same copy-pasted off-topic meaningless BS, and yet somehow they are allowed to continue.
02 September 2015, 12:39
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you know what is strange mowaten.... I was thinking the same thing exactly, the same!!!! The similarities between us are not just coincidences anymore. I mean we are both shiaa extremists who pretend to be secular and we both are members of the shia resistance, both paid to post, both are sectarian to the bone, both troll and make up accounts to insult people and then pretend we are against such practices.... I hope just because we are similar in all the above ways people don't think we are the same poster.
02 September 2015, 13:28
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isn't that what you do mowaten... force people to willingly accept your resistance?
02 September 2015, 14:38
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Syrian security forces have allegedly arrested the son of a high ranking Hezbollah military official on charges of buying weapons from Syrian army soldiers and selling them to ISIS members in Qalamoun.
Lebanese news site Janoubia reported that Syrian intelligence in mid-August rounded up a group of army recruits who were selling light to mid-level arms and ammunition to a Lebanese individual, who was also arrested.
The Syrian security service discovered that the detained Lebanese national—identified only as Ammar Y.Sh.—was a member of Hezbollah, a trusted source in the Bekaa told the outlet, which has an editorial line opposing the Shiite party.
03 September 2015, 05:49
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@elusive.roar
you are not being very elusive @the_roar? Pathetic!
02 September 2015, 12:57
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Dear Mr. Mashnouq: are you aware I am secular shia, I am a member of Hezbollah, and i also support the regime in Iran. Are you also aware I performed 3 pilgrimages to Qom already.
02 September 2015, 13:56
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no need for all this. We have great packages twice a week direct to Mykonos for around 600 dollars per person full board. You don't need to be a minister to go to Mykonos. Come join us flamethrower.
02 September 2015, 08:58
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we are glad you enjoyed your trip to mykonoth. please come again
02 September 2015, 09:28
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فيديو يظهر فيه أحد قياديي حملة “طلعت ريحتكم” مروان معلوف يطلب من موفد وزير الداخلية نهاد المشنوق خلال التفاوض لإخراج مقتحمي وزارة البيئة اعتقاله لإخراجه من مبنى الوزارة وقال ما حرفيته: “كلبجني طلعني.. خلصت”، وأضاف: “إذا بدكن تروقو الشارع برياض الصلح للي عم بهوش عملو للي عم قلكن يا وخلصت”.وتابع رداً على ما هي الإفادة من وضع الأصفاد: “بستفيد انو ما طلعت بإرادتي وبطلع الإعلام بقول انو القوى الأمنية كلبجتني بكل حضارة”.واعاد معلوف مطالبته “الكلبجة” حوالى الـ10 مرات في الشريط.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUCG-v-0-rw
02 September 2015, 09:40
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W wen l ghalat bell mawdou3?
Civilized people... walla mankon m3awadin 3a 3alam hek met7adrin?
02 September 2015, 12:30
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because he was playing to the cameras and to known trolls like you.
02 September 2015, 10:31
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@lebjack
you are wrong. these protesters are sick and tired of the state of anarchy, corruption and deceit of our current leaders. I just hope that this movement will not deviate from its original intent
02 September 2015, 12:10
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indeed, the parliamentarians expired years before the president, they are not legitimate to elect a president and should be the first to be replaced.
02 September 2015, 13:25
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Mowaten is the modern day version of Joseph Goebbel.
if you don't know who I mean ..you should !
look it up
02 September 2015, 13:45
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yes fantoura, and still waiting to hear yours
(@naharnet: why was this censored? if he can call himself "mowaten.fantoura", why can't I use the word "fantoura"?)
02 September 2015, 13:52
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because I don't use bad language like you do. I think you should be banned
02 September 2015, 13:50
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“Some security members made limited mistakes when they were forcing the protesters to willingly evacuate the building"
- Loooool did this guy really say that or did Naharnet botch it up?
02 September 2015, 14:21
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13:34الجيش يوقف شخصا من الهرمل يهرب من سوريا ومعه بطاقة تعريف وبلاك سيارة مجلس النواب خاصة بنائب لبناني
02 September 2015, 16:39
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LBCI: Interior Minister Mashnouq will reportedly broadcast during his press conference a video showing who opened fire during the August 22 protest.
what's gonna happen when the video footage show that it was Nabih Berri's ex-Amal militiamen/parliamentary guards who opened fire on the protesters? Will they be upgraded to untouchable "saints"?
02 September 2015, 17:54
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What's sad is that the same "people" on this site are rejecting the protesters as shiite or Hezbollah just because their miniature sectarian minds can only see that the interior and environment ministers as sunni Mustaqbul. Please grow up and see that this is not sectarian but anti incompetence... Pro accountability and anti status quo! We are sick of the warlords and the thieves that have controlled Lebanon for the past 25 years, like we are stupid sheep! We have been stupid sleeping sheep but now the lebanese are awaking from our stupid sectarian induced slumber!
02 September 2015, 18:23
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So if the incompetent Environment Minister was Maronite or Shiite, you would be happy to join the "You Stink" protests?
02 September 2015, 18:46
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What list Pajama boy? The list for the elections they keep postponing? The list that mustqubul and amal and psp keep postponing any new election law?!!! The whole system is stinking wrong! It all stinks!
02 September 2015, 18:11
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Mustaqbul, Amal and PSP all stink the most, being part of this revolting government since 1992. Hezbollah, FPM, LF and kataeb also smell just as bad as they delved into the same rubbish after syria left in 2005!
All of them stink!! All should be thrown out with the rubbish and maybe we can recycle some of the rubbish without the chemical warlord, 1980s waste!
02 September 2015, 18:53
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Correct your facts ado, Hezbollah has been in Parliament since 1992 with our little buddy Mohammad Raad holding the Nabatiyeh seat ever since. Marada leader Frangieh was part of every single government from 1992 to 2005, the only omnipresent person. You seem to also always forget to mention the Syrian occupation and Hezbollah refusal to send the Lebanese army to south Lebanon just so the border could be used to send messages to the worlds community and economic costs of this game.
The protesters are against all of them that means all of them, except Nasrallah. His roaming divine thugs will afflict upon you and anyone else by bodily harm if Nasrallah's name is even obliquely mentioned.
02 September 2015, 19:32
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Mr. Al Mashnouk, even though I fully disagree with the You Stink protesters to enter a ministry, even if I feel that there are many other ways, still, it wouldn't change the fact that you and the forces under your command are failed yet again. You could have simply removed the protesters peacefully since they committed no acts of offense or vandalism. It just makes me wonder why when the goons come in, your forces hesitate, yet would hit so hard when peaceful protesters are involved, why???Then you and the army have failed yet again, the army should simply cordon off the area so that no one good can infiltrate and throw glass or Molotov Cocktails. Mr. Mashnouq, today you are behaving like a thug on young and harmless people, from now you can start counting how long it will take before you are asked to leave your post. Simply put? You are not cut for the job, like so many others in this government.
02 September 2015, 19:58
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they could resign tomorrow: aoun+HA+the rest of M8 and make this parliament insolvent and force new elections. All you need is 1/3 of parliament to resign.
03 September 2015, 00:00
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Fellow Lebanese keep the protests until these corrupt politians are driven out of office stay the course we the people are right and they are wrong enough is enough do not accept compromise with corruption let the new generation fix our dear country . If any of these politians had any sense of honour they would have resigned a long time ago,
