According to the assessment of a Libyan political analyst who confided in “Sky News Arabia”, these crimes against the people “will only stop if their uprising continues” against what he described as “partnerships with militias”, in reference to the existing cooperation between government agencies and armed groups that spread corruption in western Libya.
Sequence of events
Unidentified people abducted the young man, Ahmed Al-Arabi Al-Khadrawi, on Saturday morning from his place of work located in Al-Baudriya buildings, a few meters from the government headquarters and the security directorate out of town and then took him to an unknown destination. His family and friends cut off the coastal road at the city’s eastern gate; Protesting against the kidnapping, before notables and notables intervened to persuade them to end their protest. Sunday morning, the population found the body of Al-Khadrawi lying on the beach of the village of “Joud Daem” east of the city, bearing traces of torture. Local sources said his family and friends have returned to protest again after their deceased was found murdered and tortured, especially as this is a new case in addition to the many murders including the corner witnessed recently.
An attempt to intimidate the population
In the obituary of Al-Khadrawi’s friends, they confirmed that he “was not involved in the activities of armed groups or militias”, noting that his motives for targeting him personally were not not yet clear. The young man was studying at the faculty of economics at Al-Zawiya University, according to Abdul Fattah Al-Markhi, a professor in the college’s accounting department, who confirmed that he was “jovial and known for his good behavior and his good manners “. .” Which confirms that the crime was not for the purpose of theft or ransom, as shown by scenes captured by a surveillance camera in the place of the kidnapping of the young man, where masked men l ‘told them outside at gunpoint, before taking his cell phone and leaving the scene in a hurry, without robbing the place, and they didn’t. They contacted his family to ask him for a sum of money, according to local sources.The sources suggested that the crime was “among other murders and kidnappings aimed at terrorizing the population, to silence them after their uprising against the deteriorating security conditions in their town at the hands of the militias and mercenaries”.
Partnerships with militias
The outgoing government, led by Abd al-Hamid al-Dabaiba, who is based in Tripoli, faces accusations of negligence in the security file in the western region in general, and in Zawiya in particular, according to the expression of the Libyan political class. researcher Muhammad Qashut.
Qashut considered that “the establishment of the state is not possible within the framework of the system of partnerships with the militias”, adding: “The complete deterioration of the security situation in Zawiya confirms that there is no no other solution than to launch a war of liberation for the city from the corrupt groups there. The city has gone beyond the stage of absurdity and is completely mired in crime.” “.
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