ICC drops case against Libya dead war crimes suspect
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced it has dropped criminal proceedings against alleged war criminal, Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf al-Werfalli, after being convinced of his death.
In a statement the body said they now consider his death to be an established fact after seeing “witness statements, photographs, and social media material” provided by the prosecution.
The ICC’s first warrant for Mr Werfalli’s arrest was on 15 August 2017.
He “was alleged to have directly committed and to have ordered the commission of murder as a war crime in the context of seven incidents, involving 33 persons” in Libya.
He was also allegedly involved in an eighth incident when he allegedly shot dead 10 people, the ICC says.
He was an alleged commander of Libya’s elite al-Saiqa army brigade – a special unit within the country’s national army.
