Anger in Lebanon after the library of an 80-year-old homeless person was burned in Beirut

Unidentified persons set fire to hundreds of used books dating back to the eighties of a homeless person named, Muhammad al-Mughrabi, who used to stay under the Fiat Bridge in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, which sparked outrage.

Activists on social media circulated a video clip of the fire eating books, expressing their full sympathy for the painful incident because the library was a cultural outlet for the city of Beirut, which is experiencing suffocating economic crises.

The local media highlighted the owner of the library, the man from Kfar Shuba. His pictures were published while he simplified hundreds of books in various political, religious and cultural fields.

Al-Nahar newspaper said in its report on Al-Maghraby that he is not like other homeless people, as he is not satisfied with refusing to extend his hand to anyone, but rather refuses to price the books he offers, and always repeats the phrase “Take the book you like, and if you have to pay, and if you do not have what you pay.” .

Al-Mughrabi said in one of his press interviews: “I do not care about money. If someone asks for a book and does not carry money, I will gladly present it to him. What I care about is that reading does not perish, and that the rope of culture does not break.”

Earlier, the Lebanese Minister of Culture, Muhammad Al-Mortada, visited the library and its owner, who is 82 years old. He expressed his respect for him and for the library that he established under the Fiat Bridge, pledging to improve his conditions.