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Pro-Sarraj militias attack Bernard-Henry Lévy’s convoy in Tarhouna, shouting “death to the Jews”!

Pro-Sarraj militias attack Bernard-Henry Lévy’s convoy in Tarhouna, shouting “death to the Jews”!

Back in Libya, nine years after the uprising that put an end to the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi, Bernard-Henry Lévy (BHL) raised a lively controversy within the pro-Sarraj clan, the leader of the ill-named “Government of National Accord”, which the author of « La barbarie à visage humain » nevertheless came to support, in particular through a report on mass graves attributed to the forces of Marshal Haftar in Tarhouna, a city taken over by the pro-Sarraj forces last June.

 

Abdelhakim Belhaj: Ex-jihadist, future Turkish proconsul in Libya!

Abdelhakim Belhaj: Ex-jihadist, future Turkish proconsul in Libya!

Of all the militia leaders vying for power in Libya since the fall of Gaddafi, Abdelhakim Belhaj is the most controversial. Born in 1966 in the popular district of Souq Al Jum’aa in Tripoli, he joined the ranks of the Arab mujaheddin in Afghanistan at the age of 22, where he founded the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) with other jihadists among his compatriots.

 

How jihadists finance themselves through migration trafficking

How jihadists finance themselves through migration trafficking

According to a report by a major European intelligence centre, the various Libyan militias have raised more than €520 million in one year by organising or facilitating the smuggling of African migrants to Europe.