Lebanese crooner-turned-fugitive militant Fadl Shaker surrendered himself to Lebanese authorities on Saturday after hiding in a Palestinian camp for over a decade, a Lebanese judicial official said.<\/p>\n
Shaker, a popular singer born to a Palestinian mother and a Lebanese father, was accused of taking part in 2013 clashes in Sidon, south Lebanon, that opposed Salafist Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir and his supporters with the Lebanese military which left 17 soldiers dead.<\/p>\n
While Shaker was a supporter of Assir, he denied involvement in the clashes and has been hiding in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, the biggest Palestinian camp in the country where Lebanese authorities had no jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
Assir was sentenced to death in 2017, then to 20 years of hard labour in 2021.<\/p>\n
In 2020, Lebanon’s military tribunal sentenced Shaker to 22 years in prison for providing financial and logistical support to the “terrorist” Assir-led group.<\/p>\n
“Fadl Shaker surrendered himself to the Lebanese army at the entrance to the Ain al-Hilweh camp as a prelude to concluding his legal case,” a judicial source told AFP on Saturday.<\/p>\n
By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army stays out of the Palestinian camps and leaves Palestinian factions to handle security.<\/p>\n
A source close to Shaker told AFP the singer “believes in his innocence and trusts in the independence of the Lebanese judiciary, which will do him justice this time”.<\/p>\n
Shaker in July released a song while in hiding, which topped charts in the Arab world.<\/p>\n
His video clip, filmed in Ain al-Hilweh, reached over 113 million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n
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