Protests against the ‘dear life’ in Lebanon. At least 20 injured in Tripoli

by time news

Time.news – About twenty people, including demonstrators and soldiers, were injured in the clashes last night during the demonstration against the economic situation and the high cost of living in Tripoli, a city in northern Lebanon. The protests began following the new devaluation of the national currency on the black market, which goes with a fuel shortage which has caused long queues in front of petrol stations for two weeks.

Some of the demonstrators tried to storm a Central Bank agency, but the army intervened, restoring calm this morning, according to reports from the Lebanese agency ANI. An emergency response association based in Tripoli, whose ambulances intervened during the night, assisted 18 injured civilians and soldiers. Of these, 4 were hospitalized. Some were injured by rubber bullets, others deafened by the explosions of stun bombs: this is the case, according to reports from the army, of 9 out of 10 wounded soldiers.

If the official dollar exchange rate is 1,507 Lebanese pounds, yesterday one dollar was exchanged for 17,500 pounds on the black market. After the tragic explosion at the port of Beirut on 4 August and the subsequent political crisis, Lebanon is always without a government and this makes even international aid impossible.

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