The International Criminal Court said that the former Libyan leader’s son might be trying to flee Libya with the help from mercenaries.

The International Criminal Court said that the former Libyan leader’s son might be trying to flee Libya with the help from mercenaries.

The prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, sent a statement to the UN Security Council, calling in the other countries to disrupt such plans by Seif al-Islam Gaddafi.
Seif, who was once the presumed successor to Muammar Gaddafi, has been in hiding for months.

Reports from last month claimed he was in a convoy heading toward Libya's desert border with Niger, where other Gaddafi allies have fled - but the reports were never confirmed.
An ICC arrest warrant issued for Seif al-Islam in June accuses him of murder and persecution.

The document claims that he played an essential part in systematic attacks on civilians in various Libyan cities carried out by Gaddafi's security forces in February.
The ICC has been holding talks with intermediaries to secure his arrest, following the death of his father on 20 October.

ICC TO INVESTIGATE CRIMES
On the other hand, Ocampo said they were examining allegations against NATO and interim forces, as well as pro-Gaddafi troops.

"These allegations will be examined impartially and independently by the [prosecution]."

Ocampo said there were allegations that pro-Gaddafi forces committed mass rapes crimes, as well as allegations about war crimes committed by the former rebels and NATO forces.