Libya 'retaliates' after Swiss charge Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son Hannibal
- added July 23, 2008
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Libya has taken "worryingly retaliatory measures" against Switzerland following the recent arrest of leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son in Geneva, according to the Swiss Foreign Ministry.
Col Gaddafi's government has recalled some of its diplomats from Switzerland, reduced flights between the countries, stopped processing visa requests from Swiss citizens, demanded the closure of Swiss firms in Libya and detained two Swiss citizens.
Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey has formally complained about the moves to her Libyan counterpart and has advised citizens not to travel to Libya.
Swiss International Air Lines said Libya has reduced its flights between Zurich and Tripoli from three per week to one.
The airline's spokesman said: "The notice from Libya was very surprising and short notice."
Libya also announced a similar cut in Geneva flights with Libyan airline Afriqiyah.
Col Gaddafi's youngest son Hannibal, 32, and his wife Aline were arrested last Wednesday after an incident in a five-star hotel in Geneva.
He was released on bail two days later after posting bail of 500,000 Swiss Francs. His wife, who is nine months pregnant, was taken to hospital during police questioning.
The couple were charged with assaulting two of their staff, a Moroccan man and a Tunisian woman, with a belt and coat hanger. The woman was hospitalised.
Mr Gaddafi, whose real name is Motassim Bilal Gaddafi, and his wife deny the allegations. They had arrived in Geneva on July 5 for the birth of their child.
Switzerland have dispatched a diplomatic delegation to Tripoli to provide the Libyan authorities with more details about the arrest and "to prevent a crisis between the two countries", the Swiss foreign ministry said.
Libya is the largest provider of oil to Switzerland. Hannibal Gaddafi has had previous run-ins with the law. In 2005, he was convicted by a French court for striking his pregnant companion in a Paris hotel. He was given a four-month suspended prison sentence and a 500 Euro fine.
He also was at the centre of a separate commotion in 2004, when Paris police stopped him for speeding on the Champs Elysees and his bodyguards attacked several officers.
Two of the bodyguards were taken into custody but released after a delegation from the Libyan embassy showed up at the police station and apologised.
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It was the hotel staff who alerted the police. I have seen pictures of both the Tunisian woman and the Moroccan man, showing the marks from the assault perpetrated on them by Hannibal Gadaffi and his wife - chilling.
Col Gaddafi's government has recalled some of its diplomats from Switzerland, reduced flights between the countries, stopped processing visa requests from Swiss citizens, demanded the closure of Swiss firms in Libya and detained two Swiss citizens.
Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey has formally complained about the moves to her Libyan counterpart and has advised citizens not to travel to Libya.
Swiss International Air Lines said Libya has reduced its flights between Zurich and Tripoli from three per week to one.
The airline's spokesman said: "The notice from Libya was very surprising and short notice."
Libya also announced a similar cut in Geneva flights with Libyan airline Afriqiyah.
Col Gaddafi's youngest son Hannibal, 32, and his wife Aline were arrested last Wednesday after an incident in a five-star hotel in Geneva.
He was released on bail two days later after posting bail of 500,000 Swiss Francs. His wife, who is nine months pregnant, was taken to hospital during police questioning.
The couple were charged with assaulting two of their staff, a Moroccan man and a Tunisian woman, with a belt and coat hanger. The woman was hospitalised.
Mr Gaddafi, whose real name is Motassim Bilal Gaddafi, and his wife deny the allegations. They had arrived in Geneva on July 5 for the birth of their child.
Switzerland have dispatched a diplomatic delegation to Tripoli to provide the Libyan authorities with more details about the arrest and "to prevent a crisis between the two countries", the Swiss foreign ministry said.
Libya is the largest provider of oil to Switzerland. Hannibal Gaddafi has had previous run-ins with the law. In 2005, he was convicted by a French court for striking his pregnant companion in a Paris hotel. He was given a four-month suspended prison sentence and a 500 Euro fine.
He also was at the centre of a separate commotion in 2004, when Paris police stopped him for speeding on the Champs Elysees and his bodyguards attacked several officers.
Two of the bodyguards were taken into custody but released after a delegation from the Libyan embassy showed up at the police station and apologised.
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It was the hotel staff who alerted the police. I have seen pictures of both the Tunisian woman and the Moroccan man, showing the marks from the assault perpetrated on them by Hannibal Gadaffi and his wife - chilling.
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- Vierotchka
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This is so typical of the irresponsibly childish behaviour of such 'governments'. These people think they can get away with anything. The Bulgarian nurses business is another instance. My greatest fear is that the Swiss will, as is their habit, panic and cede to these pigs. Show the slightest sign of weakness to these savages and they'll kick you in the teeth. The only proper response is the one the Americans gave in 1986.
I hope President Sarkozy remembers putting out the red carpet for the good Colonel not long ago. I hope he also has regrets about prostituting his country like that. -
The Swiss are not prone to panic, they don't have such a habit - I don't know from where you got such an idea, and bombs are the worst possible idea and not a proper response - bombs are the response of a panicky people. And in case you got things mixed up, Sarkozy is not president of Switzerland.
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- Vierotchka
- 2 months ago
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"The only proper response is the one the Americans gave in 1986. "
There is NO evidence that Libya had anything whatsoever to do with Lockerbie. In fact, the British Guardian/Observer reported in 2007 that the case against the only man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing was full of holes and inconsistencies if not outright lies.
New evidence DOES NOT point to Libya or Khadaffi. But the glaring, fatal holes in the official ''theory', the 'official' narrative did not keep Ronald Reagan from bombing a country that most certainly had nothing whatsoever to do with Lockerbie. -
I would like to say to you, the Americans attak in 1986.
was on Libyan people, many Libyans were killed but the mad dog still a live and become the western poodle,
the Bulgarian nurses got someone to free them but the Libyan political preoners dieing every day no one talks about them because they are not Europeans.
39 years we see the same faces, it was just the mad dog but now he is with a big family of mad dogs
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