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Security forces dismantle network exploiting more than 15 minors in selling roses in Beirut

The General Directorate of Internal Security Forces announced the dismantling of a network employing minors and forcing them to sell roses in areas of Beirut, and the arrest of persons involved in the network, which includes more than 15 minors, most of them of Syrian nationality. This coincided with the disclosure of a case of a man exploiting his two grandsons to sell tissues in Ashrafieh.

📍 Where things stand: The detainees are under investigation by the security forces, and the network behind the employment of more than 15 minors in selling roses is no longer operating according to the official statement.

⏱️ Timeline

4 Nov 2026, 11:22 The Internal Security Forces announced the dismantling of a network exploiting more than 15 minors in selling roses in Beirut, the arrest of three persons involved, and the seizure of another person exploiting his two grandsons in selling tissues in Ashrafieh.
4 Nov 2026, 11:35 The platform publishing the report stated that the security forces had caught a network specialized in employing minors, and that one of its members was a man who exploited his two grandsons to sell tissues.
4 Nov 2026, 14:00 The General Directorate of Internal Security Forces said in a statement that a joint patrol from the Beirut investigation squad and the office for combating human trafficking and protecting morals arrested two people in the al-Nahr area on suspicion of forming a network for child labor by forcing them to sell roses, and that the first detainee, born in 2003, heads a network of more than 15 minors, most of them of Syrian nationality, working in selling roses in al-Nahr and Mar Mikhael with the help of the second detainee, a minor.

Timeline written by AI from the sources below; updated as new reports arrive.

⚠️ Sources disagree

Number of detainees in the network

Three persons involved arrested according to lebanon debate
Two people arrested in the al-Nahr area according to Lebanon Debate

Figures as each outlet reported them at the time. We do not judge which is correct; numbers often change as events develop.

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