Interior and Municipalities Minister Ahmad Hajjar chaired a security meeting at the headquarters of the Beirut Police Unit command at the Emil Lahoud barracks with Internal Security Forces leadership, to discuss tightening security measures and procedures in the capital against the backdrop of robbery operations recorded in recent days. Officers of the Beirut police operations room presented the minister with a summary of security developments, while media reports covered robbery and pickpocketing incidents on the night of Thursday, November 5, and Al-Hout called for a security plan for Beirut.
LBCI Lebanon focused on a brief headline about examining the tightening of security measures in Beirut without details, while lebanon debate emphasized the meeting venue and participants and carried the Interior Ministry's statement on the operations room briefing about recent robberies, whereas MTV Lebanon listed the names of the security commanders present and later gave a political reading of the robbery and pickpocketing incidents on the night of November 5.