As in a tip’-cat game, the series of kidnappings continue in Beqaa without any control… Kidnapping is underway on the roads and in houses as if the rule is for clans which undertake the destiny of their citizens.
Between a kidnapping and the other, a release from here and a ransom from there, reaching a balance for kidnapped persons and the ones released became difficult.
What is certain for today is that Hussein Kamel Jaafar contacted finally, from Yabroud region in Syria, his family to inform them that the kidnappers were asking for a one-million-dollar ransom.
Furthermore, while Jaafar family kidnapped on Chaath road in Beqaa, Khaled Ahmed al-Hujairi, the kidnappers of Amer Abou Chahine called his cousin and asked a ransom of 600 thousand $ to free him. Deadline for release was settled for today in Anjar.
The kidnapper spoke in a Syrian accent with the cousin of the kidnapped.
Hence, Jaafar family convened for a meeting in Hermel where it was decided to put an end to kidnapping operations and to release 3 kidnapped out of 10 as a goodwill sign.