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VIDEO

AUDIO

PTT

45s

3^rd party UGC

Bank attacks showing Ibrahim

Upsot bank attacks

Lebanon is a country on the brink

3^rd party UGC

Three quick snippets of Sali’s bank robbery footage. Each 1s duro

…and desperation is driving some…

…to daring acts…

Sally hero shot

Folds arms outside bank

DAY04 01:33:40

Meet the ordinary woman who became a bank robber

Sally sit down IV

THOUGHT TRACK

0125 00:51:38 00:51:41

I was prepared to do whatever it took… Even if I were to be locked up till the end of my life.

Ibrahim sit down IV

ALT

ALT 2

Ibrahim:

She became a hero

Ibrahim :

That day, we were all Sally.

Flames on the streets of Beirut

File/UGC here

How far would you go, to take back what is yours?

Story title GFX: Bank Robbers of Beirut (with flames in background)

PLANNING A BANK ROBBERY

3 mins

Scene setter

DAY05

Guys sitting around drinking coffee

00:34:59 – 00:39:14

Street GVs 00:19:30 – 00:31:20

Darren walkies 00:16:41 – 00:18:00

Big Lebanon flag 00:46:18

Upsot street natsot

DAY01_C1

Bank ext GVs

00:01:25 Central bank

00:03:50 ATM behind barricades

00:12:25 – Bank of Beirut side entrance

DAY02

Downtown banking street closed

01:28:55 – 01:40:53

In Beirut, the banks have become public enemy number one

Most are boarded up …using secret side entrances … or hidden behind barbed wire and concrete barricades

Shutting out the people whose money they hold

DAY03_C1

Darren meets Sali on street outside the bank she robbed

Darren extra Qs

02:20:06

Upsot hellos

THIS IS SALLY HAFEZ….SHE HAD 20 THOUSAND US DOLLARS IN LIFE SAVINGS   - BUT COULDN’T ACCESS IT

D – when was the last time you could freely access your money in the bank?

S – Ohh, maybe four years ago

02:23:44

D – Four years ago!  How do you survive on day-to-day basis if you can’t access your money?

S - With great difficulty. ... you can go without a lot of things, you can stop going out, stop traveling, you can even stop eating or buying clothes. But to see someone sick and suffering, this is when it becomes unbearable

02:17:00 – 02:19:11

Darren and Sally walking into her apartment building

Once upon a time, Sally was just an interior designer

But last year,  WHEN FACED WITH A FAMILY CRISIS she made a radical choice

She decided to rob a bank

Sit down IV sally

0042 00:17:42 00:17:53

At that time, going to the bank and getting my money was the only way to change the reality I was living.

DAY04

Sally leaving voice message recon

AND SHE COULDN’T DO IT ALONE

Citizens lobby group Depositors Outcry had been protesting at banks and advocating for depositors, trying to get their money back

DAY03

Ibrahim recon sequence

Picks up phone, listens to message

Ibrahim Abdallah is one of the group’s leaders – and an old friend OF SALLY’S

DAY03

Ibrahim recon sitting on couch

We hear the original voice message Sally sent Ibrahim

GXF for audio recording

Upsot voice message plays

03:29:15 – 03:29:33

There is no solution but to confront them. Ok, so choose the time that suits you and pick a few trusted people who we can talk to and let us strike as soon as possible. Because the situation is no longer bearable.

Sally pitched THE PLAN in a voice message

DAY03_C1

Sit down IV with Ibrahim Abdallah

Ibrahim:

we had to, uh, to ask one, uh, lawyer, like, uh, to take his, uh, advice. We had to gather to plan what, how we can support her.

Ibrahim :

Because attacking a bank or entering it needs some kind …you have to be brave.

DAY03

Ibrahim sit down IV

Ibrahim :

the plan was like, she will take the money, only her deposit, not $1 more. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Okay. That, that was very clear. We are not thieves who are not stealing money from the bank. We are just liberating our deposits.

DAY04

RECON

SALLY OBSERVING BANK FROM ACROSS STREET

SALLY WALKING TOWARDS BANK

BLOM BANK GVs

0087 00:35:56 00:35:59

S - The bank was next to my house.

0088 00:36:17 00:36:23

S - I just went into the bank and checked how many doors were there to find out how many doors I'd need to lock and how many locks would I have to bring with me.

0089 00:36:28 00:36:50

S - And I found out that there was a safe downstairs ..

Sit down IV with Sali

0124 00:51:21:18 00:51:33:11

D - how far were you willing to go to get your money?

0073 00:28:32 00:28:38

S - I could go in, but not come back out alive.

0125 00:51:38 00:51:41

I was prepared to do whatever it took… Regardless of what was going to happen. Even if I were to be locked up till the end of my life.

WHY SALI ROBBED THE BANK

3mins

DAY04 00:13:30 – 00:15:58

Sally’s dad pours a traditional Lebanese coffee

Shot of food on table

Shot of bird in cage

Upsot father pouring coffee

Most days, Sally and her family managed to get by with very little money

That was until an event that would bring their fragile existence crashing down

DAY03

Sally shows Darren old photos on her phone

Family photo reversals

02:12:34 - -2:13:18

Wedding photo reversal

02:14:15 – 02:14:35

All photos from Sally also here:

3^rd Party File > PROVIDED BY SALLY

02:07:31 02:07:43

S - This was during the feast,

Nancy had just given birth and this

is me… We were very happy family.

02:07:44:18 02:07:50:21

D - How do you feel looking at these

pictures of a very different time

for your family?

02:07:51 02:07:57

S - You see how a person can go to bed and wake up the following day to a totally different reality. People’s lives can change suddenly

DAY04

Sali speaks with her sister in Turkiye over the phone

Upsot video call with sister

55:55 Sali: how is the weather there? I want to know what sort of clothes to bring for me and Sela, is it cold?

56:02 Nancy: yes freezing

DAY04

Sally’s uncle speaks to Nancy briefly during the call

00:55:19 – 00:55:24

Uncle: My darling, how is your health? We miss you a lot. Inshallah you will soon return healthy standing on your own feet.

DAY03

Sit down IV Sally

DAY04

Overlay with phone convo GVs

THOUGHT TRACK

0008 00:02:08 00:02:22

One year and two months ago, my Sister Nancy got sick with cancer, in the head (brain cancer), Nancy was a young woman, only 22 years old, with a young daughter too

DAY04 phone chat

58:06 I love you.

58:23 Nancy: Me too

58:24: Sali: me too, ok bye

DAY03 sit down IV

Stills of Sally, Nancy and family here:

3^rd Party File > PROVIDED BY SALLY

ALT MORE ON SALLY’S LOVE FOR HER SISTER

02:09:11 02:09:14

S - We had never been through anything like this

02:09:20 02:09:24

it was intense and destructive

0015 00:04:22 00:04:32

S - Every injection that Nancy needed cost $5000 so all of us had to work for around a year to make up the money for each injection that she was having every 20 days.

BLOM bank GVs

DAY04

01:35:45 – 01:45:30

Sally and her family appealed to THE MANAGER AT their local bank to gain access their savings

DAY03

Sit down IV Sally

Darren reversals

0025 00:10:40 00:10:46

S - they refused and they said that this was beyond them and they kept dragging the matter on and on.

S - Count to 10.

BUTT TO 00:16:05 00:16:12

S - He'd make you feel as if you were begging for money. "I'm not here to beg you for money. I'm here to take money from you, I'm here to redraw from my deposit

0037 00:16:28 00:16:31

S - Please, give me my money, please. (ENG)  No.

00:16:37 00:16:40 (ENGLISH)

S – You stole my money and also you want me to beg you?

Sit down IV with Sali

RECON

SALI ACROSS ROAD FROM BANK

ALT GRAB

0019 00:05:20 00:05:37

S - So, I thought to myself "No, I'm not going to give in."

HOW LEBANON GOT INTO THIS MESS

3mins

Quick breather

DAY04 guys fishing by the sea

02:11:50 – 02:30:00

Upsot street vibes

DAY05

Smashed ATM glass 00:14:00

Closed bank 01:08:05

Fuck the GVT 01:04:14

Street guy selling bread 01:07:50

DAY02

Buildings through barbed wire

01:23:00

DAY06

Debs Law Firm plaque 01:34:10

Sali isn’t alone

She’s one of almost one and half  million Lebanese people who’ve been locked out of their savings

That’s around a quarter of the entire country

I’m on the way to meet someone who’s become somewhat of a courtroom freedom fighter for their cause

DAY06 00:00:00 – 00:01:10

Upsot hellos at office door

DAY06

In situ questions - Fouad takes Darren to a large cabinet and shows the backlog of cases

Fouad :

So these are some of the cases we are taking care of for depositors against banks.

Fouad :

Here we have about a bit less than a hundred cases that we fight against the banks. And as the depositors union to now, we've taken a bit more than 500 cases.

Darren:

So each one of these folders represents somebody who has lost a retirement savings, salary, life savings?

Fouad :

Yeah, exactly that

EXPLAINER

1min

DAY02

War damaged Beirut buildings

00:44:15 – 01:03:45

EXPLAINER

So how did Lebanon get into this mess?

Well, it’s complicated

The country has accumulated significant debt since the end of the 15 year civil war in 1990

PTC (CAN ALSO DO AS VO)

DAY05

00:02:47

In 2016, to keep money flowing in, Lebanon’s central bank devised a plan it called ‘Financial Engineering’

DAY02 01:20:30- 01:20:50

Explainer GFX - Plate with negative space  … A big long wall, full with anti government graffiti.. with various graphs and charts … can try a few shots.. wide, pan and track

Reuters EXPLAINER

-        Banks would offer annual interest of up to 20% to anybody who would deposit foreign currency

-        It meant banks – and Lebanon’s elites - raked in huge profits while the economy continued to stagnate

-        As government debt mounted, it borrowed heavily from the central bank

-        And to keep the system rolling, banks had to aggressively pursue fresh deposits of dollars

-        Suddenly those deposits dried up

Sit down IV with Fouad

EXTRA EXPLANATION

Fouad:

they've been disguising this and fraudulently

Fouad :

we've had regulators…bankers themselves, a lot of the politicians… saying literally …No, no. Things are fine. Your money is safe. Uh, the, the Lebanese pound is doing well, so you don't have to worry about anything

Fouad :

So what has been done is pretty much a Ponzi scheme.

Fouad :

And the numbers started getting worse and worse

Fouad :

but it takes time for it to completely blow up. And when it did, it was, uh, in 2019

File footage on GVs and plates

3^rd PARTY > FROM LIBRARY >  LIB 201219 RTV LEBANON PROTESTS TIMELINE PART 2_SBS_ID_7505147

Upsot 2019 protests

It led to the single biggest uprising in Lebanon’s history

Upsot protests

The protests toppled the government

But still, the crisis deepened

The government defaulted on its foreign debt .. and banks ran out of money

Sit down IV with Fouad

DAY02

Downtown banking street closed

01:28:55 – 01:40:53

3^rd PARTY > FROM LIBRARY >  LIB 201219 RTV LEBANON PROTESTS TIMELINE PART 2_SBS_ID_7505147

SUMMARY OF CAPITAL CONTROLS

BROADER CRISIS EXPLAINER

Fouad :

right away the next day, the banks decided to close for two weeks

Fouad :

throughout these two weeks, they did what they wanted to do is, uh, they put the controls that they wanted to put in, which was, again, illegal

Darren :

When you say controls, you mean, uh, withdrawal limits?

Fouad :

Withdrawal, yeah, exactly. Withdrawal limits and transfer limits

Bank GVs

At first depositors were limited to withdrawing 1000 US dollars per week under the unregulated limits, then 400 a week, then $100 a week

And many people say they’ve been unable to withdraw even these smaller amounts due to a shortage of cash

Fouad IV

Darren :

so money went from being something that you could access and use to really just digits on a screen?

Fouad :

And this is exactly what has happened.

Fouad :

So people are there almost helpless.

Darren :

so where did that money go?

Fouad :

The, the money went into the hands of the few, the money went mainly abroad to the accounts of these bankers, the politicians, their regulators, the big cartels …It's in their real estate, uh, portfolio abroad. Um, it's in the things that they own here abroad. It's in their stock portfolio abroad.

Beirut drone

Could use GFX drone plates here with stylised text grabs in negative space

The world bank says political graft has driven the country to near bankruptcy

In a report, it’s called this “a deliberate depression orchestrated by an elite that has long captured the state and lived off its economic rents”

File Beirut blast

MUST UGC CREDIT: Youssef Kawtharani

And then in 2020 a shocking event that symbolised just how far Lebanon had spiralled

Upsot Beirut blast UGC

DAY06

Fouad sit down IV

BLAST UGC FROM LIBRARY

BLAST FILE

A chemical explosion at the Beirut port killed over 200 people and caused $15 billion worth of damage

Fouad :

it was not an accident. You know, you knew this material was there, uh, you didn't do anything about it.

DAY03

Ibrahim sit down IV

DAY02 Port damage

01:42:20 – 01:49:00

Ibrahim:

What happened in the port is pure corruption that leads to such explosion.

DAY03

Sally sit down IV

0165 01:06:59 01:07:14

S - this is just a microcosm of the state of the country or our system.

DAY05

00:33:30 Shuttered businesses

00:09:11 martyr statue

00:09:30 collapsed servo

DAY01

00:41:00 – 00:43:50 birds eye drone

More file here

Three-quarters of the population has now fallen into poverty, inflation is rampant, and the Lebanese pound has lost around 90 per cent of its value against the US dollar

It's one of the world’s worst economic collapses in over a century

DAY06_036-45

Darren and Fouad on footpath

00:00:00 – 00:00:20

VO: FOUAD IS TAKING ME TO AN ORDINARY ATM TO SHOW ME HOW LITTLE MONEY HE CAN WITHDRAW

Outside bank with Fouad

MUST BLUR CHANTAL AND NOT USE HER NAME IN SUBS

Upsot Darren, Fouad etc standing on sidewalk

But we’re quickly intercepted by private security outside the branch

MUST BLUR CHANTAL AND NOT USE HER NAME IN SUBS

Everyone standing around with Fouad arguing with guards

Upsot first argument

This sequence - 8s

01:35:06 - 01:35:14

MUST BLUR CHANTAL AND NOT USE HER NAME IN SUBS

The guys get physical, one guard chases Fouad and falls over, Fouad gets away

THEY DON’T WANT US TO FILM THE BANK, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A PERMIT AND ARE ON PUBLIC LAND

FOUAD IS MAKING A STAND

Upsot shouting + guard chases Fouad

This sequence  - 24s

01:35:38 - 01:36:02

Darren saying let’s leave

Other times Darren says we should leave

01:36:10 We’re going, we’re going.. let’s leave, let’s leave, Fouad

Darren has a quick chat with Fouad on footpath after first confrontation

MUST BLUR CHANTAL AND NOT USE HER NAME IN SUBS

Whole sequence (40s)

01:37:07 - 01:37:47

D - So why do they, why do they do that do you think?

Fouad - I think it's because like, one they don't want to... They want ... they don't want to show that, uh, there is any problems.. And so they just want to try to give the image that everything is good and what not. But it's not the case.

MUST BLUR CHANTAL AND NOT USE HER NAME IN SUBS

Guard gets in Simon’s face and approaches camera

Upsot Other guard approaches us and tries to stop Simon filming

This sequence - 9s

01:37:54 - 01:38:03

The guards chase Fouad through the carpark

01:38:06,680 --> 01:38:07,760

Fouad - I'm not going to remove my phone (put my phone away).

01:38:18 – 01:38:22

Shaky camera with Fouad on mic as he’s pinned down by guards

As we try to leave

the guards catch FOUAD and gang up on him in an attempt to seize his phone

Upsot Fouad screams

Fouad being roughed up by 4-5 guards on ground in carpark

01:38:36,840 --> 01:38:39,840

Fouad - Let go of my phone!

Woman - Enough, enough, enough!

IT BECOMES VIOLENT

AND A bystander INTERVENES

01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:53,400

Bystander - Guys, calm down, guys.

Woman - enough! He's being chocked.

103

01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:56,400

Bystander – No, no, something might happen to him, and he will mee his lord, man. (You are going to kill him).

01:39:04,840 --> 01:39:05,880

Fouad- He took my phone.

Darren and Fouad walking around corner after altercation to close out scene

Upsot everyone walking away

01:39:39 – 01:39:49

Darren PTC

DAY08

00:04:30 – 00:04:50

Can perhaps thought track first line of PTC with previous shots to streamline

ALT PTC

As you can see tensions around bank branches are at breaking point here in Lebanon

That was quite a disturbing scene

Fouad ended up with a bloodied face but fortunately he’s sustained no serious injuries 

He’s now left the scene and gone home

But clearly it’s a very volatile scenario here

SALI ROBS THE BANK

3mins

DAY04 morning shots

Sunrise over Beirut

00:01:29 – 00:07:00

SALLY SAYS IT’S THIS KIND OF BULLYING FROM BANKS THAT MOTIVATED HER TO ACT

Upsot pre-robbery music begins, at first Slowly then gradually ramps up

something like this

DAY04 00:08:31 – 00:12:00

Sali home exterior

Sali at home

SALLY WALKING RECON

SALLY WATCHING BANK RECON

01:10:35:08 01:10:52:02

D - So you wake up the morning September 14 with a plan to rob a bank.

0174 01:10:52 01:10:54

The day started at 6:00 AM

01:11:02 01:11:22

I walked around the bank, I looked inside and I nodded. I said… ‘You stole my money, today wait for me I'm coming back for you.’

Sally feet walking GVs

A day earlier Sally had found her niece and nephew playing cops and robbers with a plastic gun

Sally Sit down IV

0186 01:14:02 01:14:05

so I took the pistol from them, told them to stop and put it in my handbag

WATER BOTTLE RECONS

0192 01:16:38 01:16:44

S - I filled up water and it had Listerine, it gives the effect of petrol

BUTT TO

0072 00:28:17 00:28:20

S - so I was going to say that I was going to set myself alight

SALLY BY BEDSIDE RECON

0196 01:18:04 01:18:10

S- I said goodbye to my sister because there was a chance that I wouldn't be coming back. And I said to her "I'm going to go and get your money"

Sit down IV

SALLY LEAVING APARTMENT RECON

00:55:15

D - what's going through your

head psychologically? Are you afraid?

0133 00:55:21 00:55:38

No. I wasn't afraid. I've never felt frightened in my entire life. The only fear that I had was of losing my sister. That was the only sense of fear that I had. Other than this getting killed, getting shot, being put in jail, this didn't worry me at all. On the contrary, I was actually ready for any of this.

SALLY WALKING TOWARDS BANK RECON

Armed with a plastic gun and a bottle of diluted mouth wash, AND WITH A POSE OF SUPPORTERS BEHIND HER -  Sally entered the bank

And all hell BROKE loose

Upsot robbery music intensifies

Sali robbery UGC

Sally cocks gun 00:00:07

UGC of robbery

Guy locks doors from inside with chain 00:50

Upsot robbery begins

Sali takes out plastic gun and cocks it

Sali’s friend shrieks

0201 01:20:57 01:21:01

S - I straight away reached for the gun, I held it up and I said everyone get back.

0236 01:34:31 01:34:39

S - A man needed to have a real gun to feel strong but I gave strength to the gun that I had.

0051 00:20:29 00:20:33

S - I shut the door and I said "You are not going to leave before I get my money."

Manager has gun to head 01:11 (best vid)

Sally in managers office 00:00:26

0201 01:21:10 01:21:15

S - I went with the manager to his office.

0202 01:21:15 01:21:21

S - And at that point, I felt that it was a personal issue between the two of us …

0202 01:21:24 01:21:34

I  held him by the neck and I said, "Do you remember me? I'm the woman who was here yesterday, and you didn't take me seriously and you spoke to me rudely. I'm here to get my money from you.”

UGC in 3^rd party here

FULL TIMECODES HERE

ALT HERE

(Arabic) Upsot Sali delivers impassioned message to phone during robbery

00:00:06:24 - 00:00:18:14

We didn’t steal this money! We have worked so hard for this money. We drained ourselves to gather them. Pay the money and we will leave.

Sali on table holding gun

LONG VIDEO WITH EVERYTHING

00:05:07

BEST VERSION OF EVERYTHING

03:24

0085 00:34:21 00:34:47

S - I stood on the desk to protect my back so that no one would come and take the gun and to keep an eye on everything from above…I tried to control the situation when I'm calm and in control the situation so that we'd end up with the least loses.

UGC

Ibrahim FB live video

Upsot Protests outside bank while sally was inside

Ibrahim Abdallah was providing support outside the bank

UGC

Ibrahim FB video we see Ibrahim outside the bank, walk to bank front door and communicate with Sali through glass

Upsot @ 01:50 – 02:03 (ARABIC)

I - We all want our deposits. We are taking it by force. Didn’t you take them? Didn’t you take them? They’ve still not given you the money? Come on!

In situ Qs standing outside BLOM Bank with Ibrahim

NB Cherine can also provide her own footage filmed outside the bank during the robbery

Ibrahim :

it was like, uh, we wanted, uh, to, to release all the anger inside us

Ibrahim :

we felt that we are liberating our deposits.

Sit down IV with Ibrahim at his house

Ibrahim :

That day, we were all Sally.

Ibrahim :

And to be honest, on the personal level, actually, I lost my, uh, brother long time back. And that's why I decided to help Sally. Uh, he was suffering from the same cancer. Sorry. IBRAHIM STARTS CRYING

Darren :

It's obviously still very close for you. Yeah. Take your time.

WhatsApp Video 2023-03-01 at 11.15.16 AM (1)

-        Manager being forced to hand over cash 00:00:00 - 00:01:00

LONG VIDEO WITH EVERYTHING

Upsot robbery

Sally took the manager down to the bank safe and demanded he hand over the full $20,000 in her family’s account

They resurfaced with wads of US dollars and began counting

BANK UNION

2mins

DAY05 00:54:20

Darren street walkies

DAY05 00:51:14

Darren walking in George’s office

The crisis in Lebanon is a complex one … but how ARE robberies like this experienced by those on the other side of the gun

DAY01_C1

01:18:40 office plaque

01:09:31 George at desk

ALT

George Hajj manages a local bank branch … with staff he says are also victims of the economic crisis

DAY01_C1

Sit down IV with George

Office cutaways

George :

I have 10 under my supervision.

Darren :

And do you fear for their safety, their security?

George :

Yes. I cannot confirm that they are always secure because I don't know when my bank will be attacked.

George :

We live under pressure

George:

That's why if you see banks, they are completely closed. They are as castles, as fortress.

DAY01_C1

Sit down IV with George

Overlay with Sally robbery UGC

Darren :

Sali is considered a hero by some people in Lebanon. What do you make of that?

George :

No, I cannot consider her as a hero. She had the right to ask for her money. She has the right to defend her sister who's badly sick.

George :

But not in this way. It is illegal.

George :

if there was an iron hand, if the government used more force, no Sali and no other can do...

DAY01_C1

Sit down IV with George

Backlay with Sally robbery footage

Darren :

Do you feel like you are witnessing the slow unravelling of your own country?

George :

Yes, sure. It's not easy. We passed by difficult days, but this is more difficult. I witnessed the civil war. It wasn't difficult like this.

Darren :

So this is more difficult than a civil war?

George

Sure. You can hide from bullets, from rockets, but it's not easy to suffer when you cannot buy from the supermarket…

We don't have money anymore.

SALLY ON THE RUN

UGC

Man breaks glass at rear of bank and escapes @ 2:00

As Sally was out front counting her money, a frightened bystander smashed a window at the rear of the bank

Upsot window being smashed

UGC of Sali’s friends leaving through broken window @21:57

Gun @ 22:28

With $13,000 counted and a new rear exit from the scene, Sally ditched her original plan to surrender

She decided - quite literally – to take the money and run

SALLY RUNS UP APARTMENT STAIRS

SALLY ENTERS HER APARTMENT

SALLY WRITING FB POST

0255 01:42:37 01:42:50

S - So I put a post on Facebook saying that I was at the airport, see you in Istanbul, Ciao. They got it straight away and they read it. And half the (security) apparatus that was there went to the airport looking for me.

SALI PUTTING ON HEADSCARF, ROBE AND BUNDLE ON BELLY

KNOCK ON DOOR

SALLY WEARING SCARF TALKING AT DOOR TO POLICE OFFICER

SALLY WALKING DOWNSTAIRS IN COSTUME

0120 00:49:21 00:49:42

I wore an abaya and a veil and I put the money and some clothes over my belly and we rang the ambulance, we said there was a woman giving birth, and at that time when they came and knocked at the door to arrest me, I opened the door for them myself and I pretended I was giving birth so they went in looking for Sally and I fled.

SALLY GETTING INTO CAR WEARING DISGUISE

CAR DRIVING OFF INTO DISTANCE

SALLY HID IN THE BEKAA VALLEY FOR 3 WEEKS BEFORE MAKING A STATEMENT AND HANDING HERSELF IN

RTV FILE IV WITH SALI IN HIDING

Standing in a dark field

This costs 4 Reuters points to purchase

Arabic:  We are in the country of mafias. If you are not a wolf, the wolves will eat you.

3^rd Party

Sali being released and celebrated outside cop shop

3^rd Party > FROM YOUTUBE > SALI RELEASE

Upsot Sally release footage

She was held overnight before being released – without charge

0279 01:54:29 01:54:32

S - Plus the judge asked me to get him his money back.

HOW LEBANON REACTED

3mins

File/UGC of other robberies

RTV of other robberies

NEW UGC HERE

3^RD PARTY FILE > FROM TWITTER

What Sally did became infectious

Upsot other robberies

Crowds gathered outside banks as would-be robin hoods tried to liberate their money inside

DAY03

Sit down IV with Ibrahim

Ibrahim :

She became a hero, like a lady attacking a bank. And she got her money. And because all the depositors, as I told you, everyone wished to do the same. And one lady came and did what everyone and all the men <laugh> wished to do.

Fire bombs and protests outside bank

Smashing windows and lighting fires

UGC provided by Ibrahim

Upsot angry protests

In the months since Sally’s daring heist, the anger and the desperation in Beirut have only worsened

UGC Ibrahim shouting outside bank

3^rd Party > PROVIDED BY IBRAHIM > WhatsApp Video 2023-03-15 at 9.47.26 PM

Upsot Ibrahim (ARABIC)

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Ibrahim: We don’t have anything. Let everyone hear us, we don’t have anyone with us anymore. They took our money!

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Ibrahim sit down IV

Can use overlay from bank attack videos

3^rd Party > PROVIDED BY IBRAHIM >

WhatsApp Video 2023-03-01 at 10.07.28 AM

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Ibrahim :

we cannot continue living in this situation, in this corrupted country. They stole our money, they stole our efforts.

Darren REVERSAL :

How far do you think things could go? How bad could they get?

Ibrahim :

We are totally against violence, but I can see that some of the depositors will go to revenge, that they will not let their money go.

Darren :

So they will take life?

Ibrahim :

Maybe some of them

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UGC wheeling Sally’s sister at the airport on her way to Turkey

3^rd Party > PROVIDED BY SALLY > SALLY SISTER GOING TO TURKEY UGC

Upsot sister crying in video

After learning Nancy’s cancer had spread, Sally’s family could now afford to send her to ISTANBUL  for urgent treatment

Sali sit down IV

Robbery UGC

Sally hero shots

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D - What do you want people to know

about what you did?

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I want people to know that I reached a point where I had nothing to lose

01:58:41 01:59:07

that there was a woman who refused to be humiliated and she refused to submit to this authority and to this regime and she refused to submit to oppression, so she rebelled. She stood up and rebelled. She said “no, I exist, I'm a human being, I'm a woman, I can be strong and I can save someone's life.”