Caretaker telecommunication minister Charbel Nahhas said Thursday that Internal Security forces Information Branch was mounting a coup against the state’s authority.
Some 500 members of the Information Branch prevented Nahhas and two managers accompanying him from entering sealed-off rooms in the ministry’s headquarters in Beirut.
In a press conference, the caretaker minister said that he visited the building on Thursday morning and encountered “400 armed personnel, military and civilian, with their weapons ready” when he tried to go up to the second floor.
“They had taken the second floor of the building and prevented the ministry’s technical teams from performing routine maintenance work”.
Nahhas added that caretaker interior minister Ziad Baroud was not aware of the situation and, once notified by the telecommunications minister, issued an order requiring the personnel to leave the building.
He stated that these units have not left the building and are therefore rebelling against the state, accusing the ISF Directorate-General of defying the Interior Ministry’s orders.
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