Bystanders praised an armed man who held bank staff hostage for hours on Thursday in Beirut because he could not access funds frozen at the bank after the country’s economic collapse. The hostage situation in a bank in Lebanon’s capital ended after authorities agreed to grant the gunman partial access to his frozen funds in exchange for releasing all the hostages. The man
Bassam Al-Sheikh Hussein, the Lebanese man who was hailed a hero for taking hostages at gunpoint in a Beirut bank while demanding the release of his frozen funds to pay for his father’s medical treatment, has been released, according to TV news channel Al Arabiya. Lebanon’s Attorney General released the man after the bank dropped the lawsuit against him, Al Arabiya TV reported
A Lebanese judge has ordered the release from detention without charge of man who, last week, took hostages at a Beirut bank in an attempt to access his savings frozen after the country s 2019 financi.