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Summary Saadi fled Libya after revolutionary forces stormed Tripoli and overthrew his father's regime.
Niger has no plans to send ousted Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafis footballer son Saadi home to face justice, Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said Thursday on a visit to France.Earlier, the global police agency Interpol had issued a notice warning to its member states, which include Niger, that Libya is seeking Saadis arrest for his alleged crimes while head of the countrys football federation.Saadi Gaddafi is in safety, in security in Niamey, in the hands of the Niger government. Theres no question of him being extradited to Libya for the moment, Rafini said in the western French town of Saint-Brieuc.We need to be sure he will be allowed a fair defence, he said. Are those conditions in place today? No.The 38-year-old playboy fled Libya across its southern frontier to Niger after revolutionary forces stormed Tripoli and overthrew his authoritarian fathers 42-year regime. He was last seen in Nigers capital Niamey.Interpol said in a statement from its Lyon headquarters that Saadi was wanted for allegedly misappropriating properties through force and armed intimidation when he headed the Libyan Football Federation.It urged member states to help locate him with a view to returning him to Libya where an arrest warrant for him has been issued.As the commander of military units allegedly involved in the repression of demonstrations by civilians during Libyas uprising, Saadi Gaddafi is also subject to a United Nations travel ban and assets freeze, it said.Saadi, the third of Gaddafis seven sons, renounced a football career in Italy in 2004 to join the Libyan army, where he led an elite unit.He was captain of his national team and president of the Libyan Football Association and remained a symbol of the murky ties between Libyan oil money and Italian professional football.When he was 20, he trained with Italian clubs Juventus and Lazio.He remained a shareholder in the leading Turin club Juventus by virtue of being the chairman of Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company, which holds 7.5 percent of the shares in the club.
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