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Lebanese Activists Promise More Bank Raids after Woman Retrieves Locked Savings

A Lebanese activist group on Thursday vowed to organize more bank heists to help people retrieve their locked savings as the country's years-long economic crisis continues to worsen. Activists from Depositors' Outcry group accompanied Sali Hafez into a Beirut bank branch on Wednesday, and she was able to retrieve some…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 15, 2022

After heist, Lebanese activists promise more bank raids

A Lebanese activist group says they will continue to organize bank heists to help people retrieve their trapped savings in this crisis-hit Mideast country

The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2022

A woman with a toy gun grabs her savings from a Beirut bank

She broke into a bank branch, taking $13,000 from her trapped savings amid strict limits on withdrawals set by Lebanese banks. She said she needed the money to fund her sister's cancer treatment.

WEKU · Sep 14, 2022