Ain Dara Residents Protest Threats 'Launched by Fattoush'

Families of the Aley district town of Ain Dara held a sit-in on Wednesday protesting an attack waged by armed gunmen against the municipality's building, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Armed men stormed the offices of the municipality and tried to forcibly obtain a signature on a license for a cement plant, NNA said.

Pierre Fattoush, the brother of MP Nicolas Fattoush, threatened to kill the female employee at the municipality, Therese Bader, after she refused to sign one of the submitted documents to establish a cement plant in outskirts of the town.

It is not a first for Fattoush. In 2014, gunmen loyal to the MP and his brother assaulted a TV crew during the filming of a report on the construction of a controversial cement factory.