Geneva: A Swiss regional government is ready
to pay compensation to a son of Libyan leader Moamar Kadhafi
in a step to ease diplomatic tensions with Libya, Swiss
television reported on Wednesday.
A Geneva canton spokesman and Charles Poncet, a lawyer
for Hannibal Kadhafi, both declined to comment on the report
ahead of a weekly regional government meeting today.
In a March 16 court filing shown by Swiss public
television channel SFTV yesterday, the Geneva government
accepted responsibility for the leak of police mugshots of
Hannibal Kadhafi taken when he was briefly arrested in July
2008.
Hannibal Kadhafi and his wife were suspected of
mistreating two of their domestic staff and were held for two
days. This sparked Libyan sanctions and the arrest of Swiss
businessmen in Tripoli.
Diplomats said the publication of the photographs of a
dishevelled looking Hannibal Kadhafi in a local newspaper last
September added to the Kadhafi family's anger.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 22:12