Separate teams of protesters also stormed the Ministry of Economy, the Lebanese Banking Association and the Ministry of Energy before being expelled by the army shortly thereafter.
The latter is the issue of the icular anger of the population, which has suffered in recent months the worse-than-ever force cuts from the de facto bankruptcy of the state.
“They ruled Lebanon for 30 years, now Lebanon is ours,” said a protester on live Lebanese television shows.
“We have entered the Ministry of Energy and are here to stay. They will be surprised by our actions,” he said, referring to the ruling political elegance that protesters repress.
The Lebanon Banking Association, also an apparent target for protesters who have dubbed their leaders “the government of banks,” has been looted, an AFP reporter said.
However, until 22:30 (1930 GMT), the protesters had dispersed and security forces had been deployed throughout the city, where damaged glass and debris from Tuesday’s crisis mingled with the smoldering debris of a night of rage.
The demonstrations came at a human cost, with a police officer who died after an “assault” through “rioters,” police said.
Dozens of other people injured in the violence also needed re-use in hospitals that are already complete with injuries to patients who suffered the mega explosion and the coronavirus on Tuesday.
Activists have also placed symbolic ties in Beirut’s Martyrs Square to hang politicians whose corruption and forget accuse Of Tuesday’s explosion. Among the cardboard clippings hanging through the protesters were those of Aoun and Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the terrorist organization Hezbollah, a key intermediary in Lebanese politics.
Several protesters chanted “Hezbollah is a terrorist organization,” on video.
Saturday’s events, which revealed new and more elaborate through the protesters, overshadowed a short televised speech through Prime Minister Hassan Diab, who advised early elections.
Under increased street pressure, which needs heads to overlook the beirut harbor tragedy, and foreign partners exasperated by the inability of leaders to adopt reforms, Diab’s government is wearing out.
A block of three deputies from a Christian opposition resigned from parliament on Saturday, bringing the number of lawmakers to five to resign since the 4 August explosion.
During his stopover at the blast site on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the billions of dollars of aid that would be obtained would not be obtained if the Lebanese state did not implement profound changes.
Cracked by debt and the fall of the local currency, threatened by a spike in COVID-19 cases, Lebanon can hardly isolate foreigners, but its hereditary dominant elegance is sinking.
On the eve of a foreign donor convention organized through Macron for disaster-ravaged Lebanon, many foreign powers suggested that they send more cash into stealthy and incompetent hands.
“We call on all distraught Lebanese to take to the streets to call for the prosecution of all corrupt people,” said Sami Rammah, the retiree who led the short-term profession of the Foreign Ministry on Saturday.
Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit met top officials ahead of expected visits by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel.
Near the huge crater caused by Tuesday’s explosion, which was felt in shock waves on the island of Cyprus, groups of Lebanese and foreign rescuers dug through the rubble in an 11-hour effort to locate the survivors.
According to the Ministry of Health, at least 158 other people were killed and 6,000 injured by the explosion, which within seconds swept through the port and caused as much damage in some spaces as 15 years ago the civil war had done a generation ago. .
The Syrian government said more than 40 Syrians were among the dead, but it is known if they were part of the Lebanese Health Ministry’s account.
The Netherlands announced that its ambassador’s wife had died on Saturday as a result of the explosion.
The staff of the Times of Israel and AP contributed to this report.