Suspects in General Younis killing: Former NTC deputy PM and his acolytes Threaten to close Benghazi airport

Ali Essawi menaced the CNT of closing Benghazi airport if himself or one of his companions. Hotels sheltering Arab media ‘’will also be closed if our voices are not heard’’. Being publically suspected of the murder of Major General Younis tried to hold a press conference on Wednesday to explain their position vis-à-vis this case but were prevented from holding the presser.

The former NTC deputy Prime Minister and de-facto Foreign Affairs Minister who used to travel around the world to gain sympathy, help and more importantly recognition during the revolution time defended his innocence saying the prosecutor did not start any investigation. 

Essawi said he was astonished of the accusation a day after he told Libya TV broadcast from Cairo, about the inns and outs of the Younis murder;  

The statement said the defendants were keen to pursue the investigation with the civilian prosecutor for the detection of crime and the perpetrators and bring them to justice, emphasizing their categorical refusal to appear before a court managed by Gadhafi regimes’ residuals and vowed to defend themselves by all appropriate means  until they are declared innocents.

 Ali Essawi, a Libyan former National Transitional Council (NTC) deputy Prime Minister and two of his companions charged with the killing of former and late Commander of the Libyan Liberation Army, Major General Abdel-Fattah Younis and his companions with, said the accusation they were facing can have “serious consequences” if the NTC arrested them. The suspects vehemently denied the charges pointed at them and refused also to appear before the court. Ali Essawi and his companions also described the conference organized by the military prosecutor Youssouf Alossifr with the President the  CNT Mustafa Abdul Jalil during which the accusations were made public as a beginning of a period of the deviation of the revolution.

 He said the accused Mustafa Rabi of the martyrs’ battalion which was assigned to hand the warrant arrest to Major General Younis and call him to the headquarters of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry in Benghazi. Younis who was back to Benghazi tried to call many members of the NTC including Abdul Jalil, but nobody replied to his calls and ignored him. Suspects de Younis tuant général: Ancien vice-Premier ministre NTC et ses acolytes menacent de fermer l’aéroport de Benghazi