Pop star turned Islamist militant Fadel Shaker surrenders to Lebanese military after 12 years on the run | Lebanon
A Lebanese pop star returned, the desired Islamist militant began to escape 12 years after the country’s military intelligence service delivered.
Fadel Shaker, Sunni Muslim militants and the Lebanese army Bloody Street, in June 2013, the coastal city of Sidon has been fleeing since the clashes. He was tried in absenteeism and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a “terrorist group” in 2020.
On Saturday night, a Lebanese military intelligence force reached one of the entrances of Ein al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon and detained Shaker, who has been hiding in the camp for more than 12 years.
Authorities said that the circuit came after the coordination between mediators and authorities at the Lebanese Ministry of Defense.
Authorities said that Shaker was kept by the Lebanese officials, that the penalties he received while fleeing will be reduced and that he would be preparing to be tried for new charges of committing crimes against the army.
Shaker refused to play any role in the conflicts in Sidon in the past, and said he never defended bloodshed.
Hardline Sunni cleric Sheikh Ahmed Assansir’s 2013 conflict, which attracted his followers against the Lebanese Army, killed at least 18 soldiers among Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Lebanon and killed sectarian tensions.
In a video loaded on Youtube on the second day of the street fight in Sidon, he called a bearded rolling enemies as pigs and dogs, and by mocking the army, “There are two rotting corpses that we broke away yesterday” – apparently referred to two massacres.
In 2002, Shaker became a pop star with a hit in the Arab world. Almost 10 years later, he came under Assir’s influence and shocked his fans by turning to the hard clergy in Rally and then he gave up singing to be closer to God.
In July, Shaker released a new song with his son Mohammed, viral in the Arab world and received more than 113 million landscapes on Youtube.
Shaker’s revolutions come when the Lebanese army starts to collect weapons from the 12 Palestinian refugee camps, which are unlimited for the authorities.
