Ageing building in Lebanon’s Tripoli are becoming dangerous

Ageing building in Lebanon’s Tripoli are becoming dangerous

Residents of Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli agree that negligence, chronic deprivation, and the absence of the state lie behind the tragedy of building collapses, warning of the grave consequences of the lack of radical solutions to ageing buildings. "As the south has been destroyed by Israeli aggression, Tripoli has likewise been destroyed by neglect," said one resident of the northern capital, summarising the scene after the collapse of th…