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Thursday 03 Sep 2015 - 13:12 Makkah mean time-19-11-1436
Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk (Google image)
Beirut (IINA) – Lebanon's Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said Wednesday that any sit-in and attacks targeting state institutions in the country by protesters will no longer be tolerated.
Machnouk spoke a day after a group of protesters marched into the Environment Ministry in Beirut, occupying a floor of the building in a drawn-out standoff with security forces that lasted nine hours.
At a press conference, Machnouk defended the behavior of security forces during protests and said police will act decisively from now on if protesters do not respond to orders. Any future sit-ins will be dispersed "from the first moment, according to the law and using force if they do not respond," he affirmed.
Also announcing the results of an investigation into excessive use of force by police during a protest on August 22, Machnouk said two police officers were referred to the Disciplinary Council and six officers will face disciplinary measures.
He noted that the security personnel fired live ammunition in the air, used rubber bullets from close range and fired tear gas canisters to disperse the protesters after they attacked the military police who lined up in front of the barbed wire.
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