Libyan prosecutors on Wednesday said they have opened an investigation into the killing of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was shot dead in Zintan, northwest Libya.
In a statement, the public prosecutor’s office confirmed that forensic experts had been dispatched to the city and that efforts were ongoing to identify those responsible for the attack.
“The victim died from wounds by gunfire,” the prosecutor’s office said, adding that investigators were working to question witnesses and gather information that could help clarify the circumstances surrounding the killing.
Seif al-Islam’s lawyer, Marcel Ceccaldi, told AFP that his client was killed by an unidentified “four-man commando” who stormed his home in Zintan on Tuesday.
Libya has remained unstable since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi and plunged the country into years of political division and armed conflict.
The country is currently split between a UN-backed government in Tripoli and an eastern administration supported by Khalifa Haftar. Neither authority has publicly commented on Seif al-Islam’s death.
So far, the only official reaction has come from Moussa al-Kouni, vice-president of Libya’s Presidential Council representing the Fezzan region, who condemned political violence.
“No to political assassinations, no to achieving demands by force, and no to violence as a language or a means of expression,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
AFP.
