“Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, one of the sons of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was killed in Libya.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. Photo from mass media Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, one of the sons of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was killed in Libya.
Source: “Reuters” with reference to sources close to the family, his lawyer and the Libyan mass media, the Saudi TV channel “Al-Hadat”
Details: The circumstances of Gaddafi’s son’s death are unknown to the agency.
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According to the Saudi TV channel “Al-Hadat”, 53-year-old Saif al-Islam was killed near the city of Zintan in western Libya. He was allegedly shot dead in his own garden, where four criminals broke in.
Abdallah Othman, a political adviser to Saif Gaddafi, confirmed the death on Facebook without elaborating on what happened.
We will remind:
- In October 2011, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, captured in the city of Sirte, died of wounds.
- After the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, his son Saif al-Islam led the resistance to the Transitional National Council of Libya.
- Later it became known that he was captured by supporters of the transitional government from the city of Zintan. In 2015, Saif al-Islam was sentenced to death.
- Among the crimes of which Gaddafi’s son was accused, encouragement to rape, kidnapping, murder, embezzlement of public funds.
- In 2016, the media reported that Saif al-Islam was granted amnesty and released. In March 2018, he nominated himself for the post of president of Libya.
- Saif al-Islam Gaddafi asked the Russian authorities for support in the 2019 Libyan presidential elections.
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