Activists of the protest movement stormed the concrete and metal barricades closing off the passage from the dome of the rock to the parliamentary Palace at the Place de l’etoile. As the correspondent of TASS in the police flying hail of stones and firecrackers in response to the shots are heard, special units use rubber bullets.
Tear gas the police have not yet used, because in the ranks of the demonstrators there are a lot of women and children. In the result the protesters have penetrated quite far to the city center and went to shopping galleries El Aswaq.
The resignation on Monday of the government of technocrats has not weakened political tension in the country. Now the opposition demands resignation of the President Michel Aoun, the dissolution of the chamber of deputies and hold early elections.
"retired [Prime Minister] Hassan Diab for six months I couldn’t do anything, we gave him many chances but he was a puppet of the ruling coalition" says 40-year-old tailor, Rita, came to the square the Place de martir with two children. This opinion is not accepted by older engineer Moussa Badran. "Diab – honest politician and trying to do something for the people, but he fought against corruption alone, none of the political elite did not want to help him" – said the man.
It echoes taxi driver Ali Crase, who believes that the ruling class gave Diab to implement the planned reforms.
"They [the coalition members] have deprived him of this chance, Diab became objectionable, and they got rid of him" – highlights of the cruise.
The Cabinet of technocrats was formed on January 21 and received a vote of confidence on February 11. Diab, the government relied on the support of the parliamentary majority headed by Pro the Free Patriotic movement and the Shiite tandem "Amal" – "Hezbollah". Party Pro-Western camp refused to participate in the Cabinet and went into opposition. Among them, the movement, "al-Mustaqbal", whose leader, a Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri – led the previous coalition Cabinet, and resigned on 29 October last year amid engulfing Lebanon mass protests.
