Al-Marsad newspaper: Suha Al-Badri, an adviser to Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam abroad, said that the latter is following up the issue of the release of his brother Hannibal, the son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, noting that this has become imminent.
“Al-Badri” indicated that the release of Hannibal depends on the results of negotiations taking place behind the scenes, where he will obtain his freedom after paying a bail of $150,000 to the Lebanese justice system, and that he will have to remain in Lebanon pending his trial, according to “John Afrique” magazine. “.
The magazine returned to statements made by Hannibal Gaddafi to a Saudi TV channel on August 25, during which he wondered, “How can a two-year-old child know the whereabouts of Musa al-Sadr, whose circumstances took place on August 31, 1979.”
Hannibal has been detained in Lebanon since 2015, when he was a refugee in Syria after the death of his father, and was kidnapped from there by members of the Lebanese Yaqoub family, according to the statements of Gaddafi’s son, knowing that the Shiite Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoub did not appear with him with the disappearance of Musa Al-Sadr, who was accompanying him to Libya in 1978.
In 2016, the Lebanese judiciary accused his son, Hassan Yaqoub, of involvement in the kidnapping of Hannibal Gaddafi from Syria. The report pointed out that Hannibal, who was described by the same magazine in 2016 as “the deposed prince,” confirms his innocence at the age of no more than two years at the time of the events of the disappearance of Imam Musa al-Sadr, and that “his father did not meet Musa al-Sadr when he came to Tripoli.
Hannibal Gaddafi, who is now detained at the headquarters of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces, is quoted as saying that “his kidnappers forced him to cross the Syrian-Lebanese border illegally, and held him for several days on his feet and hands.”
Hannibal Gaddafi, who was tortured, was reportedly asked for a ransom in exchange for his release, before being handed over to the Lebanese authorities, while Hannibal Gaddafi’s lawyer, Yasser Hassan, is reported to have condemned “collusion” between the kidnappers and the components of the state.