Arrest Warrants for Two who Tried to Assault Airport Customs Chief

First Military Examining Magistrate Judge Riad Abou Ghida issued Friday arrest warrants for Mohammed and Tarek al-Sabeaa on charges of “assaulting and insulting Customs agents at the Rafik Hariri International Airport,” state-run National News Agency reported.

It said Abou Ghida made his decision after interrogating the two men.

On Saturday, NNA said the army arrested the two men after an attempt to assault the customs chief at the airport.

Several individuals including Tarek Hisham al-Sabeaa and another man from the same family stormed into the office of the customs chief at the airport Samer Diaa and tried to assault him, NNA said.

It added that the police airport had seized smuggled merchandise that the assailants were trying to exchange for shoe insoles.

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