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Depositors storm 4 Lebanese banks, demanding their own money

FILE - Mock wanted posters for the owners and chairpersons of Lebanese banks, posted by activists from the Depositors' Outcry group, hang on a gate to a parking lot, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 18, 2022. Lebanese depositors, including a retired police officer, stormed at least three banks in the cash-strapped country Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, after banks ended a week-long strike and partially reopened. As the tiny Mediterranean nation's crippling economic crisis continues to worsen, a growing number of Lebanese depositors have opted to break into banks and forcefully withdraw their trapped savings. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) Lebanese security officers stand outside a Byblos Bank branch that was broken into by depositor Ali Hodroj holding a handgun, firing a warning shot and demanding about $40,000 of his trapped savings, in Tyre, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Hodroj retrieved about $9,000 in Lebanese pounds following negotiations before he turned himself in to police outside the branch. Lebanese depositors, including a retired police officer, stormed at least four banks in the cash-strapped country Tuesday after banks ended a weeklong closure and partially reopened. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) An intelligence army officer takes pictures with his mobile phone at the entrance of a Byblos Bank branch that was broken into by Ali Hodroj holding a handgun, firing a warning shot and demanding about $40,000 of his trapped savings, in Tyre, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Hodroj retrieved about $9,000 in Lebanese pounds following negotiations before he turned himself in to police outside the branch. Lebanese depositors, including a retired police officer, stormed at least four banks in the cash-strapped country Tuesday after banks ended a weeklong closure and partially reopened. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Lebanese security officers stand at the entrance of a Byblos Bank branch that was broken into by depositor Ali Hodroj holding a handgun, firing a warning shot and demanding about $40,000 of his trapped savings, in Tyre, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Hodroj retrieved about $9,000 in Lebanese pounds following negotiations before he turned himself in to police outside the branch. Lebanese depositors, including a retired police officer, stormed at least four banks in the cash-strapped country Tuesday after banks ended a weeklong closure and partially reopened. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)