Top Tripoli Gunman Released from Jail after Serving Sentence
Top gunman in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood, Ziad Allouki, was released from jail on Friday after serving his sentence, media reports said.
Allouki had turned himself in to the military intelligence in 2014 along with other leaders of armed fighters in the northern city of Tripoli.
He was charged with threatening an army soldier with a weapon in 2013, and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Allouki arrived at Tripoli late during the day where crowds of people gathered to greet him. He said: “As long as the security forces are present in Tripoli there is no need to take up arms anymore.”
Tripoli had previously witnessed several rounds of deadly gunbattles between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
Allouki was the so-called leader of the Souk al-Qameh fighting frontier in Bab al-Tabbaneh .
But when a strict, unprecedented security plan got underway in the city, he went into hiding and decided afterward to turn himself over to the authorities.
Source: Naharnet
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