Pop star turned militant Fadel Shaker surrenders to Lebanese military

Beirut – Beirut (AP) – the Lebanese pop -star, which has become an Islamic militant who has been looking for an Islamic militant, transferred to the country's military intelligence service on Saturday 12 years after the run, representatives of judicial and security said.

Fadel Sheker, has been on the run since the bloody street collided between the Sunni Muslim militants and the Lebanese army in June 2013 in the coastal city of Sidon. In 2020, he was judged in absentia and sentenced to 22 years in prison for supporting the “terrorist group”.

On Saturday evening, the Lebanese military intelligence forces reached one of the entrances to the camp of Palestinian refugee Ain El Hill near Sidon and took a shaker, which was hiding in the camp for more than 12 years, detention, two security and two judicial officials.

Officials who spoke on conditions of anonymity in accordance with the rules said that the transfer occurred after coordination between intermediaries and officials in the Lebanese Ministry of Defense.

The officials said that now that the shaker is held by the Lebanese authorities, the sentences that he received during the run will be discarded, and he will be questioned in preparing for the presentation of the court on new accusations of crimes against the military.

Shaker denied In the past, playing some kind of role in clashes in Sidon and said that he had never defended bloodshed.

A 2013 shootout, in which followers of the Sunni clergyman on the line Sheikh Ahmad al-Sir At least 18 soldiers were killed against the Lebanese army and deepened sectarian tension in Lebanon between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

In the video uploaded to YouTube on the second day of the street struggle in Sidon, the bearded shaker called his enemies of the pig and dogs and mocked the military, saying: “We have two rotting corpses that we grabbed yesterday,” – the visible, referring to two killed soldiers.

Shaker became a pop -star throughout the Arab world in 2002 with a hit. Almost 10 years later, he fell under the influence of al Asira and shocked fans, appearing next to a tough clergyman at rallies, and then said that he was throwing singing to become closer to God.

In July, Shaker, along with his son, Mohammed, released a new song that became a viral in the entire Arab world and received more than 113 million views on YouTube.

A random transmission of a shaker arrives when the Lebanese army began the process of collecting weapons from 12 Palestinian camps of Livan refugees, who were deprived of the Lebanese authorities.

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