BEIRUT: Authorities arrested a man Friday after investigating a video that surfaced online showing the suspect wielding a knife as he threatened to kill three frightened Syrian children, a security source said.
The video, which a local website circulated earlier in the day, showed the man making threats to the children in what appeared to be a storage room.
“Who should we kill first?” the man, who had a Lebanese accent, said as the frightened children began crying.
“No, no, no,” the children, in tears, yelled back.
The man then toyed with the children, ordering them alternatively to sit down or come forward, and repeatedly asking who he should kill first, to the children's terror.
The children kept pointing to a boy, dressed in a white shirt and black trousers, who had stepped a little closer toward the man but quickly retreated.
“You came forward, are you ISIS?” the man said. “Put your hand forward. It is either your heard or your hand.”
The suspect, from the northern town of Abba in Nabatieh, claimed to only be joking with the children, and that their mother had asked him to look after them while she was at work.
The man who shot the video said that he regretted taking it.
Speaking to a local television channel the boys said they were scared that the man would cut off their hand, however their mother said that she was close friends with the suspect and he had never harmed her children.
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