[1] Michel Murr was born to a Greek Orthodox Christian family in the Matn District village of Bteghrine in 1931.
They spent the rest of the war years in Syrian-controlled Zahlé, waiting for the day when Damascus would complete its occupation of Lebanon.
[7] On 20 March 1991, he survived an assassination attempt, when a car bomb detonated near his motorcade in Antelias, killing eight people and wounding 35 others.
[9] Murr was appointed interior minister in the 1996 Rafic Hariri cabinet[10] and kept the post in the 1998 Salim Hoss government.
[15] On 31 January 2021, the National News Agency (NNA) announced that Murr had died due to complications from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[16][17] Afterwards, his memorial service was held at the Saint Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Rabieh, and he was later buried in his hometown, Bteghrine.