The Libyan Attorney General’s Office announced the release of five foreign nationals who had been kidnapped.
The Department of Information and Communications Affairs in the Attorney General’s Office provided the necessary information to investigate the incidents.
The perpetrators were identified, and one was arrested by members of the 676th Battalion operating in the vicinity of Shwerf Municipality. The victims were reportedly tortured and kept detained in order to extort a ransom from their families to secure their release.
Last month, gunmen kidnapped Egyptian businessman, Suhaib Fekri days ago in Tripoli, taking him to an unknown destination, his family confirmed
The family told Libya’s Al-Marsad news that they “searched police stations, battalions, security agencies, and prosecutors in Tripoli, and did not find any evidence of his arrest. Therefore he was kidnapped.”
The family appealed to Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah El-Sisi to intervene, and help release him.
The family also appealed to all security, military, and judicial authorities in Tripoli to investigate his disappearance. As well as to the Attorney General, Al-Siddiq Al-Sour to intervene and help release him.
Fekri and his family have been working in Libya since the seventies. He owns a private advertising company called “North Africa Advertising”.