Monitoring Camera Between Jumblat”s Beirut residence and Future TVMonitoring Camera Between Jumblat”s Beirut residence and Future TV
Security forces on Saturday confiscated a bicycle fitted with a monitoring camera near the Beirut residence of Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat and Future Television offices.
The camera, a security source said, also was monitoring the road leading to the Mediterranean Bank main offices in west Beirut”s Clemenceau Street.
The camera, the source said, was concealed in a metal box fitted to the back seat of the bicycle that was chained to a traffic light pole.
Army troops and police patrols sealed off the district as sappers checked the suspicious box attached in the bicycle assuming it might be a bomb.
"They were surprised to find a sophisticated monitoring camera in a functioning status," added the source who asked not to be identified.
Later in the day, investigators found out that the owner of the suspicious bike is a Lebanese-American identified as David Nabti, an AUB student majoring in Business Administration.
Nabti told investigators that he had installed the camera and attached it to his cell phone to shoot pictures of tourist sites and that he had no political motivation.