Exclusive sources told 218News that the street leading to the Presidential Council from the Nofalian side was completely surrounded by unidentified military vehicles, carrying civilians in civilian clothes and others in military uniforms.
The commander of the Al-Samoud Brigade, the internationally wanted Salah Badi, had promised that “there will be no presidential elections as long as the men are present,” revealing an agreement to close all state institutions in the capital, Tripoli.
In a meeting footage circulated on social media, Badi said, “We are not the owners of cheap debts like many, and no one can buy our debts, and we do not work for any country from abroad,” declaring his rejection of the elections in this way, he said.
Badi launched a scathing attack on the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stephanie Williams, whom he described in the most horrific terms, and considered her an “agent and accomplice of criminals.”
Badi’s statements came amid news coming from the capital, Tripoli, that an unknown military force entered the headquarters of the Presidential Council and the Prime Minister’s headquarters on Al-Sikka road, in addition to the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense.
