Future bloc MP Ammar Houri condemned on Wednesday the attack against the protest held in Beirut on Tuesday in support of the Syrian people.
“The attack on peaceful protesters… by the Syrian Embassy security guards and armed party members is a dangerous and unprecedented act that contradicts with the traditions and habits of Beirut,” the National News Agency quoted Houri as saying.
Houri held the security forces accountable for the attack and called on them to carry out their duties and punish aggressors.
He also demanded that the foreign ministry “summon the Syrian envoy and warn him about such practices that are conflicting with the characteristics of the diplomatic relations between the two countries.”
Dozens of supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attacked a small rally in the Beirut neighborhood of Hamra, leaving at least five injured.
Lebanon's political scene is split between supporters of the Assad regime, led by Hezbollah, and a pro-Western camp headed by ex-Premier Saad Hariri.
Syrian anti-regime protests erupted in mid-March. The Syrian Observatory has put the death toll since protests erupted to at least 1,600 civilians and 352 members of the security forces, with more than 1,300 people arrested.
-NOW Lebanon
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