Libya probes killing of late ruler Gaddafi’s son

Libyan prosecutors stated on Wednesday (February 4, 2026) they have been investigating the killing of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of slain ruler Muammar Gaddafi, within the metropolis of Zintan.

The general public prosecutor’s workplace stated forensic specialists had been dispatched to Zintan in northwest Libya, the place he was shot useless, including that efforts have been underway to establish suspects.

“The sufferer died from wounds by gunfire,” the workplace stated in an announcement, including that investigators have been seeking to “converse to witnesses and anybody who might be able to make clear the incident”.

Marcel Ceccaldi, a lawyer who had been representing Seif al-Islam, advised AFP he was killed by an unidentified “four-man commando” who stormed his home on Tuesday (February 3).

The top of the Presidential Council, a transitional physique speculated to symbolize all of divided Libya below a UN settlement, urged “political forces, the media and social actors to indicate restraint in public statements and to keep away from incitement to hate”.

“We name on all political forces to attend for the outcomes of the official investigation,” an announcement by Mohamed al-Menfi stated, referring to Seif al-Islam as a “presidential candidate”.

The youthful Gaddafi, 53, had been seen by some as his father’s successor. Mr. Menfi added that escalation might “undermine efforts at nationwide reconciliation and the holding of free and truthful elections”.

Libya has struggled to get well from chaos that erupted after a NATO-backed rebellion in 2011 overthrew Muammar Gaddafi.

It stays break up between a UN-backed authorities primarily based in Tripoli and an jap administration backed by Khalifa Haftar. Seif al-Islam was arrested in November 2011 in southern Libya following a warrant issued by the Worldwide Felony Courtroom in The Hague for alleged crimes towards humanity.

A Tripoli courtroom later sentenced him to dying in 2015 after a speedy trial, however he was granted amnesty. In 2021 he introduced he would run for President, however the elections have been indefinitely postponed.

No info has been launched on his burial, however his adviser Abdullah Othman Abdurrahim advised Libyan media that an post-mortem had been accomplished and he may very well be buried in Bani Walid, south of the capital Tripoli.

Moussa al-Kouni, vice-president of the Presidential Council who represents Libya’s Fezzan area, wrote on X: “No to political assassinations, no to reaching calls for by power, and no to violence as a language or a method of expression.”