{"id":64164,"date":"2022-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/64164\/banks-announce-closure-starting-monday-due-to-security-concerns"},"modified":"2022-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:00:00","slug":"banks-announce-closure-starting-monday-due-to-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/64164\/banks-announce-closure-starting-monday-due-to-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks Announce Closure Starting Monday Due To &#8220;Security Concerns&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"The Lebanese Association of Banks has held an emergency meeting in light of events that have unraveled over the past week. In a statement, ABL announced that all banks would be closed for 3 days starting Monday, September 19. <br \/>  <br \/>  This comes after multiple separate incidents of depositors barging in and demanding their money, the first of which being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/64151\"target=_new\">Sally Hafiz<\/a>.<br \/>  <br \/>  Just this morning, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/64162\"target=_new\">depositor barged into Byblos Bank in Ghazieh-Saida<\/a>, holding employees hostage and managing to recover $19,200 of his deposit using a toy gun. Hours later, the situation was replicated in BLOM in Tarik el Jdeedeh. <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mohammad Korkmaz reportedly managed to salvage $19,200 from his deposit using a toy gun.<\/p>\u2014 Beirut.com (@BeirutCityGuide) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeirutCityGuide\/status\/1570684083528732674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: ANOTHER bank heist is reportedly taking place right now at BLOM in Tarik el Jdeedeh. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C47Zbh2Hln\">https:\/\/t.co\/C47Zbh2Hln<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Beirut.com (@BeirutCityGuide) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeirutCityGuide\/status\/1570691752721526786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Back in August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/63968 \"target=_new\">banks went on strike for three days<\/a> in protest of what they referred to as \u201cpopulist\u201d decisions taken against its members in Lebanese court after the arrest of the chairman of Credit Bank Tarek Khalife.<br \/>  <br \/>  As economic conditions continue to deteriorate, Lebanese people have grown increasingly desperate to get their hands on their own money. 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