Internal Security Forces (ISF) Director General Achraf Rifi in an interview published Saturday said that Lebanese authorities are still on investigating the case of the Estonians kidnapped March in the Bekaa Valley.
He added to Al-Jumhuriya newspaper that the investigation has reached an important stage.
Lebanese authorities are coordinating with French and Estonian counterparts on the case, Rifi also said.
The ISF director said that his forces confiscated contraband from inmates’ cells in Roumieh Prison in the operation Friday to reassert control over the facility.
Seven Estonians, who were on a cycling holiday, went missing on March 23 in the eastern Bekaa Valley after entering Lebanon from Syria. The motive for their abduction remains unclear.
ISF Special Forces ended riots that broke out at the Roumieh Prison on Friday morning.
Inmates at Roumieh rioted in April, demanding a general amnesty, timely trials, and the improvement of prison conditions.
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