Syrian child found tied up in Baakline woods by own father, suspected murderer

A video circulating on social media, showing a child tied to what appears to be the trunk of a thick bush, was posted on X on Monday evening. According to the description given by the individual who broadcast it, the scene takes place in Baakline in the Chouf, where “young people” found the child, identified as being of Syrian nationality, tied with a chain “by his father “. The video shows the people who discovered the child working to free him. The man stressed that the most “horrible” thing was that the child did not want to be released, for fear that his father “would massacre him”.

The president of the municipal council, Abdallah Sleimane el-Ghossayni, confirmed the main elements of this news item. “A Syrian worker residing in Baakline with his family, who was found to have murdered his daughter and buried her in the garden of the house, is being detained at the town’s police station awaiting referral to the “It was he who tied his son in the field so that he would not reveal what he had done,” he added, without further details.

This is the second time in a few days that Baakline has been talked about on social networks, in the context of the war between Hezbollah and Israel. On Sunday afternoon, an inconsequential altercation between displaced Lebanese fleeing Israeli bombings and local residents seeking to control their identity was also filmed and shared on social media.

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