BEIRUT: Tripoli MP Mohammad Kabbara voiced Thursday concern over the northern city’s security plan after the “violent” celebrations of the supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad over his election win.
“The gravity of what happened in Jabal Mohsen overnight is not only a celebration by some gunmen over the election win of Assad,” Kabbara said in a statement. “It is more like a political message that involves the Jabal Mohsen residents in declaring what they do not want, to claim that they share the same fate as Assad."
Celebratory gunfire was heard in the neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen Wednesday night after Assad was declared the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election in a landslide, capturing 88.7 percent of the vote.
The Alawite-dominated Jabal Mohsen is one of the major neighborhoods involved in Tripoli’s clashes that ended in April. It was engaged in fierce battles against residents of the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood, dominated by Sunnis who oppose the Assad regime.
The Army earlier this morning detained several suspects over opening fire in the air to celebrate Assad’s election win.
Kabbara also called on the Jabal Mohsen residents to declare frankly “that those who opened fire celebrating Assad’s win do not represent them.”
The Tripoli lawmaker also called on the security forces to tighten its grip against such violations in Jabal Mohsen “as not to bring back tension to the city.”
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