The General Directorate of State Security - Department of Information, Guidance and Public Relations announced that, “In addition to its previous statement dated 4/18/2026, and in follow-up to its continuing efforts to suppress violations that affect economic security, and after one of the owners of the violating electric generators within the scope of the city of Beirut failed to come to the building of the Directorate of Information and Special Operations to complete the judicial procedures against him, and based on the signal of the Financial Public Prosecution ordering him to be brought, a patrol from this General Directorate carried out the judicial signal, A number of citizens intercepted it and prevented it from carrying out its mission, forcing some members to fire into the air to disperse them, but no one was harmed.” She added: “The investigation is being conducted under the supervision of the Military Public Prosecution.”