The Government of National Accord has released 1347 prisoners as a precautionary measure to prevent the outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic to end overcrowding in the cells of reform and rehabilitation institutions, while sources indicated that the freed persons were recruited to fight on the frontlines.
The sources indicate that the Government of National Accord has recruited the released persons on the frontlines to compensate for their losses, according to what was stated by sources in the Ministry of Justice of the Fayez al-Sarraj government in Tripoli to Al-Ain News.
The sources, who preferred not to be named because of the security situation, confirmed that the Government of National Accord was using precautionary measures to confront Coronavirus to release hundreds of extremist detainees to join them on the frontlines.
The sources also revealed that the “senior leader of ISIS smuggling deals, Muhammad al-Kibb, famous for (Detective Conan) who is also a leader in the armed groups affiliated with GNA and an official in Mitiga prison, is the mastermind of this idea to reinforce the capabilities of mercenaries after the successive losses for GNA forces in equipment and arms as well as fighters amid fierce clashes with the forces of the Libyan National Army.
This step is taken by GNA forces to coincide with the European Union’s launch of the Operation IRINI in the Mediterranean, which will limit the influx of mercenaries, hence forcing GNA to use terrorists and criminals from within Libya to bridge the gap and compensate the losses.
Mitiga prison contains more than 12.000 inmates, most of whom are accused of terrorism and murder cases. Large numbers of inmates were released in groups and joined the militias after GNA armed groups had suffered losses on the frontlines of Sirte, Gemayel, Zaltan, Regdaline and other areas close to the Tunisian border that the LNA liberated.
LNA revealed earlier that about 1,000 Syrian and African mercenaries and 50 Turkish military personnel were killed and other families were injured in clashes near the Libyan-Tunisna border towns.
