After holding bank employees hostage at gunpoint to retrieve the frozen funds she needed for her sister’s cancer treatment, Sali Hafiz had a message for her fellow Lebanese citizens.
“People are committing suicide,” she told a local TV station this week of those who, like her, have grown increasingly desperate three years into a crippling financial crisis. “I tell them: don’t pick up the gun and shoot yourselves. Go get your money, even if it costs you your life.”
Hafiz was not the first person to storm a bank and demand their money but her actions this week caught the public imagination, emboldening those disillusioned by the state and financial institutions they blame for the crisis.
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