Libyan lawyer: Hannibal Gaddafi was not wanted by the Lebanese judiciary when he was kidnapped 9 years ago

The lawyer and advisor to the Libyan Judicial Union for Foreign Affairs, Khaled Al-Ghawil, said that Captain Hannibal Gaddafi was subjected to pretrial detention in Lebanese prisons on allegations of his connection to the disappearance of Musa Al-Sadr and his two companions that occurred in 1978, stressing that Hannibal was two years old at the time and therefore he was not a party to this case.

Al-Ghawil confirmed, during an intervention with Al-Arabiya satellite channel, that Captain Hannibal was not summoned by the Lebanese judiciary and was not wanted by the Lebanese judiciary, while he fell victim to a crime committed by an armed gang that took him from Syrian territory and was tortured and handed over to the Judicial League.

Al-Ghawil wondered why Hannibal was still detained for 9 years, describing those who kidnapped him from Syria as a criminal gang, holding the Amal Movement responsible for the continued unlawful detention of Hannibal Gaddafi, and that this responsibility extends to the Syrian authorities.

He believed that the appearance of Captain Hannibal Gaddafi before the judicial investigator in Lebanon was an illegal procedure, because he was not judicially wanted, appealing to those he described as rational people in Lebanon to solve the mystery of this detention.