Khaberni - The Lebanese judiciary approved today, Thursday, to reduce the financial bail for releasing Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, from 11 million dollars to 900 thousand dollars.
The French Press Agency quoted judicial sources as saying "The judicial investigator in the case of the kidnapping and disappearance of Imam Musa al-Sadr and his companions, Judge Zaher Hamadeh agreed to reduce the financial bail from 11 million dollars to 900 thousand dollars in exchange for releasing Hannibal Gaddafi."
Hamadeh also decided, according to the same source, "to cancel the travel ban on Gaddafi and allow him to leave Lebanese territory immediately after the bail is paid."
Judge Hamadeh had agreed on October 17 last year to release him in exchange for a bail of 11 million dollars, a decision that was opposed by Gaddafi's lawyers.
The bail will be paid quickly and he will leave
On his part, the French lawyer for Gaddafi's son, Laurent Bayon, told the French Press Agency, "The bail will be paid quickly and he will soon leave Lebanon using his Libyan passport," without specifying his destination.
The decision to reduce the bail came after a delegation from Libya visited Beirut and met with Lebanese political and judicial officials on Monday, including the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.
The delegation handed Judge Hamadeh "a copy of the investigations conducted by the Libyan authorities in the Al-Sadr case, and interrogation records of several political and security officials in the regime of the ousted president Muammar Gaddafi," according to what a judicial source told the French Press Agency earlier.
The Shia community in Lebanon holds the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi responsible for the abduction of Musa al-Sadr, founder of the Amal Movement, and his companions Sheikh Mohammad Yaacoub, and journalist Abbas Badreddin in Libya during a visit there on August 25, 1978, although the former Libyan regime denied the charge, asserting that the three had left Tripoli for Italy.
