BEIRUT: A firefighter was wounded by
celebratory gunfire after the Wednesday release on bail of a man accused of a
June attack on a local television station, security sources told The Daily
Star. Wissam Alaaeddine was released on LL2 million bail after the Beirut
Accusatory Committee overturned a previous decision to deny his release.
Residents of Alaaeddine’s Beirut
neighborhood, Khandaq al-Ghamiq, shot the celebratory rounds that accidentally
wounded the firefighter.
The gunfire came during a Cabinet
meeting, and its proximity to the Grand Serail put security forces there into a
state of high alert.
Alaaeddine is accused of attempted
murder as well as trying to burn down the Al-Jadeed building in Beirut. Two
other suspects are still at large.
The attack came after the station
ran an interview with Sheikh Ahmad Assir, who criticized Hezbollah leader
Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and Amal Movement leader and Parliament Speaker Nabih
Berri.
Alaaeddine’s arrest prompted masked gunmen to
close off several Beirut roads with burning tires.http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/Aug-30/186112-firefighter-injured-by-celebratory-gunfire-after-prisoners-release.ashx#axzz253nNLWTE
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