Families of murder victims urged on Saturday the Lebanese state to assume its responsibilities in protecting citizens and pursuing crime perpetrators to curb the spread of arms.

 

Rallying at Martyrs' Square in Central Beirut under the slogan "For all those who have gone", victims' families and civil activists called on Interior Minister, Nouhad Machnouk, to seize all arms from the hands of gangsters.

 

Former Interior Minister Ziad Baroud, who participated in the sit-in, expressed "solidarity with the victims for the future of our children."