Libya: Arrest of the accused of killing 16 Egyptians by shooting in 2016

The Libyan security authorities announced, on Friday night, the arrest of the accused of killing 16 Egyptians by firing squad in 2016 in the city of Bani Walid, western Libya, and referred him to the Public Prosecutor.

The incident that shook local public opinion And Al-Dawli to April of 2016, when 16 Egyptian irregular migrants were brutally shot dead by smuggling gangs in the city of Bani Walid, following a quarrel between the two parties.

And more than 5 years after the In this incident, the “Brigade 444 Combat” of the Government of National Unity said, in a statement, that a security detachment affiliated with it, disguised in civilian clothes, managed to arrest the so-called “H.A.” The Public Prosecutor is required for his “brutal killing of innocent residents of the Egyptian community” in Libya, which sparked anger at the local and international levels.

The 444th Combat Brigade stressed that “the campaigns against crime and criminality will not stop,” explaining that “it will strike with an iron hand against anyone who seeks to harm the security of citizens and residents,” and that “the law does not change and does not change and the criminal will be met with His punishment is no matter how he escapes from justice, even after years.”

Thousands of Egyptians work in Libya, and the Libyan coasts are a major passage in Africa for irregular migrants trying to sail to Europe.

On several occasions, the Libyan and Egyptian authorities succeeded in liberating Egyptian workers after they were subjected to kidnappings, detention, extortion and even torture at the hands of smuggling gangs or armed militias.

Migrants in the city of Bani Walid in Libya (archive)