Frequent "robbery", Lebanon bank outlets "indefinitely" closed

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Due to the frequent "robbery", the Lebanon Banking Association announced that the country's bank outlets were "indefinitely" closed. According to BBC reports on the 21st, on 19-21, all bank outlets in Lebanon had been closed for 3 days. This is because the local robbery incidents occur within a week- "robbers" are actually banks of banks!

At present, Lebanon is experiencing the worst economic crisis in the history of the country. With the intensification of inflation, 80%of the people are difficult to afford food and medicine. Lebanon currency has plummeted since 2019. Local banks restrict the redeem of storage households and adopt the practice of freezing these "old dollars" accounts, making the people's embarrassing life worse.

The storage households wanted to retrieve the "old dollar" in their account, which led to many storage households grab bank incidents in Lebanon. Five on the 16th on the 16th. Lebanon Bank had to close the door collectively.

According to Reuters, a Lebanon woman named Sali Harfz last week "robbed" Blom Bank's Berut Branch with a toy pistol and successfully withdrawn 13,000 US dollars from his sister's account. Hafitz said that he wanted to use this money to treat his sister who was suffering from cancer, but was hunted by the police. Harfitz during the escape said that it was not a crime to get back his bank money. At that time, she just pulled her nephew's toy gun and put it on the table, and the bank staff handed her the deposit to her. Last Friday, another man used a suspected toy gun to threaten the staff of Gazie's bank to get $ 19,000.

From the perspective of bank employees George Hagi, the robbery of Harfz and others has caused the effect of misleading the public. More than 6,000 bank employees have been unemployed so far, and they are also victims of the economic crisis. According to a statement issued by the Lebanon Banking Association on the evening of the 21st, in view of the increasingly violent social atmosphere and lack of effective security measures, the association decided to continue to extend the closing time of bank outlets. The Lebanon government said that the country is striving to reform in accordance with the requirements of the International Monetary Fund. It is expected to receive US $ 3 billion from the United States this year.

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