Security forces removed Sunday banners containing insults to Saudi Arabia that were pinned on a footbridge on the coastal highway in Antelias, state-run National News Agency reported.
The Free Patriotic Movement meanwhile issued a statement denying any link to the banners, after media reports said an FPM official was involved in the move.
“The FPM stresses that it has nothing to do with the insulting banners and it condemns this insult and emphasizes its respect for the brotherly kingdom and its keenness on Lebanon's ties with it and with all brotherly and friendly countries,” it said.
Later on Sunday, Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi asked State Prosecutor Samir Hammoud to prosecute and arrest those who installed the banners and to hand them the “harshest penalties.”