Dozens of people demonstrate in Beirut to protest the economic situation in Lebanon

March 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Dozens of people have taken to the streets of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, to protest the economic situation in Lebanon on a day in which several protesters have tried to storm the Lebanese government headquarters.

Police have fired tear gas into the crowd, while dozens of protesters, dressed in Lebanese flags and mostly activists and retired military personnel, have thrown objects at security forces, according to local media reports.

Several protesters have organized a sit-in in front of the Parliament building to request, among other demands, an increase in wages and health and educational services in the midst of a serious economic crisis that is plaguing the country and that has caused an increase in the price of staple foods.

The country is going through a crisis never seen for a quarter of a century and which, since the end of 2019, has reached a critical point where the collapse of the currency, the increase in inflation to triple digits and cuts in the energy supply have coincided.

All this, added to the endemic discontent of the population with the corruption that has reigned for years, has turned Lebanon into a social hotbed while more than half of the population descends into a spiral of poverty.