According to reports, a woman named Sali Hafiz had to rob Beirut bank, making away with $13K of her own savings to pay for her sister’s cancer treatment after withdrawal was blocked for whatever reason.
The Daily Mail got the details;
A Lebanese woman held up a Beirut bank on Wednesday with a toy gun and walked out with thousands of dollars of her own money to pay for her sister’s cancer treatment.
Sali Hafiz, a 28-year-old activist and interior designer, said she managed to free around $13,000 from the $20,000 she said her family had deposited.
Cancer treatment for her sister costs $50,000, she said.
Video shows her talking to bank employees at a reception desk before taking out the toy gun prompting screams from those inside.
Hafiz streamed a live video of her raid on a Beirut branch of Blom Bank, in which she could be heard yelling at employees to release a sum of money while entrances to the bank were sealed by associates.
‘I am Sali Hafiz, I came today… to take the deposits of my sister who is dying in the hospital,’ she said in the video. ‘I did not come to kill anyone or to start a fire… I came to claim my rights.’
She said she had repeatedly visited the bank to ask for her money and was told she could only receive $200 a month in Lebanese pounds, she said.
Bank deposits have been frozen for three years by the government after Lebanon’s economic collapse in 2019, with depositors in Beirut beginning to take matters into their own hands.
An AFP correspondent at the scene said gasoline had been poured inside the bank during the heist, which lasted under an hour.
Hafiz told local media she had used her nephew’s toy pistol for the hold-up before leaving with the cash in a plastic bag.
There have been several movies about this exact same situation.
Flip to the next page to watch the video of her robbing the bank of her own money…
