Sidon Municipal Police Resumes Operation
Nine members of the Sidon municipal police were released from police custody at noon Monday following a brawl with Internal Security Forces.
Sidon Municipality chief Abdul Rahman Bizri had said he was pulling out the entire municipal law enforcement employees from Sidon to protest the arrests.
Following their release on Monday, Bizri said municipal police resumed normal operations.
Bizri explained that the nine municipal police were arrested after trying to end a brawl between ISF members and a Sidon resident and his son who violated traffic instructions and as a result were badly beaten up.