Frattini: Gaddafi Wounded, Lybian Dictatorship Falling Apart

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on Friday said he believed Muammar Gaddafi (pictured) had fled Tripoli, adding that reports that the Libyan leader had been wounded during the conflict were credible. Photo by EPA/BGNES

Libyan leader dictator Muammar Gaddafi has most likely left the capital Tripoli and has most likely been wounded, according to Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.

Frattini told reporters in Tuscany he had been told by Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Catholic bishop in Tripoli, that "Gaddafi was most probably outside Tripoli and probably even wounded" by NATO airstrikes.

Speaking in an interview for Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the Italian Foreign Minister said the dictatorship regime in Tripoli, which has been tangled in a civil war with rebels for some two months now, and has been bombed by international forces led by NATO, is falling apart.

"There is certainly an effect that all this is provoking - the disintegration of the regime from the inside, which is what we wanted. International pressure has apparently provoked a decision by Kadhafi to seek refuge in a safer place. I am of the view that he has probably fled from Tripoli but not from the country,'' Frattini told Corriere della Sera.
Italy's Foreign Minister made it clear Italy expected formal charges against Muammar Gaddafi by the International Criminal Court, possibly before the end of May.

He further accused Gaddafi'sregime of deliberately sending boats with refugees towards Italy, saying this was "a criminal instrument'' that should be taken up by prosecutors from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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