Salam orders arrest of gunmen who paraded at Ashoura rally in Beirut

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Saturday ordered authorities to arrest several gunmen who had paraded Friday with their rifles at a Ashoura rally in Beirut's Zokak al-Blat area.

In a post on the X platform, Salam said armed parades in Beirut are "unacceptable in any way and under any justification."

He added that he contacted the interior and justice ministers and asked them to "take all the necessary measures to enforce the applicable laws, arrest the perpetrators and refer them to investigation."

MTV meanwhile reported that Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar had on Friday sent the circulated videos of the parade to the chiefs of General Security and the Internal Security Forces, asking them to identify the gunmen in the videos and take the necessary measures against them in coordination with the judiciary.