Lebanon women run into the bank with a toy gun, just to take out the deposit to save their loved ones

Polar news reporter Manda Hu Xiuwen

Since the economic crisis broke out 3 years ago, Lebanon's storage households have been unable to withdraw money from their accounts.

Recently, a woman in the Lebanon capital took a toy gun and her associates to seize the hostages in the local bank, sprinkled gasoline around the bank, threatened to set fire and burned people, forcing bank employees to withdraw her deposit. The woman holding a gun said that forcibly withdrawing was to save her sister who had cancer. The woman's behavior is supported by many people in the country.

Women's toy gun rushed into the bank to forcibly withdraw money

According to the Washington Post on September 14, on the 13th local time, Sali Hafitz rushed into the Broom Bank Branch of Berut to raise a gun for money. She wore black T -shirts and pants, a pair of lemon -colored sneakers.

Sali Hafitz raised his gun at the bank for money

After the robbery, Blom Bank issued a statement confirming that Harfz was the depositor of the branch. The statement stated that Harfiz and a group of people entered together, detained customers and bank employees, spilled gasoline around the bank, and threatened to set fire to the people. Then she forced the branch manager and finance to open the safe and take away cash. The incident did not cause injuries.

The live video showed that Harfz counted piles of money. Harffz later said that she only took out $ 12,000.

After the incident, Harfz immediately became a hero. She is the second person to hijack the hostage in the bank this summer.

Forcibly withdrawal for my sister who suffers from cancer

Lebanon has experienced a serious economic crisis since 2019, and banks have been unable to withdraw their money.

In the case of an economic crisis, protests broke out throughout Lebanon, asking the country to resign and end corruption. Worried about the bank's crowding, the Brahm Bank Branch closed for several weeks, and then applied temporary restrictions on the number of dollars to be extracted.

People gather in front of a bank

It is reported that today's banks allow storeders to withdraw up to $ 400 a month, and there are a small amount of Lebanon pound.

In this way, Harfz needs more than four years to withdraw 20,000 US dollars of deposits from her account. But she couldn't wait, because she needed $ 50,000 to treat her sister's cancer. For a few months, she has been asking the bank to take out her funds.

"It was the bank's public robbery." After the robbery, Hafitz told the media that she had reached the point of selling kidneys to pay for treatment costs.

Similar events are not the first time

Haffz's grabbing bank seemed to be repeated last month.

In August, a man took a can of gasoline into a bank in Beirut, threatening that he would be self -immolation if he did not allow him to extract $ 210,000 in his account. The man said he needed to pay his father's medical expenses. Later, he waved a rifle and negotiated for several hours. In the end, the bank agreed to give him $ 35,000. The man was arrested, but was released a few days later and was not charged with crimes.

Like what happened in August, Lebanon people quickly began to celebrate the robbery. On social media, many people shared Harfz's photos in the bank and put a crown image on her head. "Heroes from our country." A person wrote on social media. "Good." Another user wrote, "Things can only do that."

In the interview, Hafitz apologized to the person she was scared and added that the gun was her little nephew's toy gun.

With the news of the arrest warrant of the Hafz, the interviewer asked her what would she do if she was caught. "I want to ask who will interrogate me, or who will come to catch me." Harfz said, "I think about me, if such things happen to their sons or sisters, I want to see what they will do. "

When people were concerned about Hafitz, another robbery had occurred in a mountain city not far from the capital.

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