Overview
- The Office of the Attorney General said investigators and forensic doctors examined Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s body and determined he died from gunshot wounds, and prosecutors have opened a case to identify suspects.
- His political adviser reported that four masked attackers entered his residence in Zintan, disabled surveillance cameras, and fatally shot him, a version also relayed by his lawyer, with no claim of responsibility announced.
- Conflicting accounts persist about the location of the killing, including a family claim that he died near the Algerian border, and authorities have not publicly specified the site.
- Gaddafi, 53, had lived largely in Zintan since a 2017 amnesty following his 2015 death sentence in absentia in Tripoli, and he remained wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges linked to the 2011 uprising.
- A once-viable presidential aspirant whose 2021 bid underscored Libya’s divisions, his death renews uncertainty over militia dynamics and the prospects for long-delayed national elections.