Safia Farkash

Safia Farkash or Safia Farkasch , also Safia Farkash al-Baraasi ( Arabic صفية فركاش, DMG Ṣafīya Farkāš ; * el-Brasai), is the widow and second wife of the former Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi and mother of seven of his eight biological children as well as one adopted daughter.

Life

Farkash is said to come from an East Libyan family from the Barasa tribe, was born in Baida and trained as a nurse . According to other sources, Safia was born as Zsófia Farkas in Mostar , Bosnia-Herzegovina , and is of Croatian and / or Hungarian origin.

She met Gaddafi when he was hospitalized and treated for appendicitis in 1971 . They married in Tripoli in 1971 and had seven children and an adopted daughter. The family had their main residence near the Bab-al-Aziziya barracks, which is located in a southern suburb of Tripoli.

Farkash mostly stayed in the background in her marriage to Gaddafi. For the first time after the release of the Lockerbie assassin Abdel Basit Ali al-Megrahi in 2009, she organized a festival on this occasion to celebrate the anniversary of Gaddafi's 1969 Libyan revolution. In 2008, Farkash was elected Vice President of the African Women's Organization in Sharm El Sheikh , although she did not attend the meeting and had never taken on any activities in this context. Farkash owns the airline Buraq Air. In 1992, its fortune was estimated at about $ 30 billion.

Safia stayed at her home in Tripoli with her husband and family during the 2011 Libyan civil war . When the civil war reached Tripoli in mid-August, she and her family fled Libya . On August 27, they sat down with six armored Mercedes-Benz - sedans across the border at the southwestern Libyan town of Ghadames towards Algeria from. At first she was refused entry by the Algerian authorities. On August 29, the Algerian government officially announced that Safia had entered Algeria together with daughter Ayesha and sons Muhammad and Hannibal and all other people from the convoy and had asked for asylum . The Algerian Foreign Ministry then announced that the people and the Gaddafi family would be granted residence and asylum in Algeria for humanitarian reasons.

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family

Libyan state propaganda reported that Gaddafi and his wife adopted a daughter in the 1980s who was believed to have died in the US air strike on April 15, 1986 between the ages of one and five. Gaddafi is also said to have adopted his nephew Milad Abustaia al Gaddafi. According to a Libyan legend, Gaddafi saved his life in the US air strike.

According to estimates by Libyan opposition activists, the Gaddafi family is said to have assets of between 80 and 150 billion US dollars. In particular, Gaddafi has made profits from the oil and gas sector his own for decades. Some of her sons are said to have gone to the head of the National Oil Company (NOC) occasionally without consulting their father in order to demand millions from the oil business for private purposes. Gaddafi was also active in the German market with the petrol station chains Tamoil and HEM .

In addition, dispatches from the US embassy in Tripoli show that Gaddafi's assets are invested in investments in the construction and infrastructure, telecommunications, hotels, press and consumer goods sectors. In 2002, the Gaddafi family invested 22.9 million euros (7.5 percent) in the Italian soccer club Juventus Turin . It is not clear how much money Gaddafi made abroad. There should be accounts in the Arab Gulf States.

In the course of the civil war in Libya on April 30, 2011, the sixth son, Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi, and three of his grandchildren were said to have died in a NATO air strike on a house in Tripoli. Gaddafi and his wife are said to have been in this house at the time.

children

• Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi : Safia's first child and Gaddafi's second oldest son was born in 1972, studied architecture in Tripoli and for a few years management at a private university in Vienna , where he also made contact with the Austrian politician Jörg Haider . In 2002 he began his doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science . Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi owned various companies active in the economic and media sectors and founded a foundation for development in 1999, through which he also acted as Libya's development minister as an intermediary between foreign governments such as oil companies and his father. He sought the release of Western hostages who had been kidnapped by Islamists (for example in the Philippines), was involved in environmental protection and, along with Mutasim-Billah Gaddafi, was considered a possible successor to his father. On November 19, 2011, Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi was arrested in southern Libya.
• Al-Saadi Gaddafi : The second child and third son of Gaddafi, born in 1973, is married to the daughter of a military commander and attended a Libyan military academy, where he achieved the rank of colonel. In the 1990s he headed an elite brigade that fought against Islamists and is said to have commanded the Special Forces from 2006. He ran the Libyan Football Federation and played on the Italian soccer team Perugia Calcio . He made a fortune in the oil industry and as a film producer. He was arrested on August 22, 2011 as a result of the War in Libya. According to Nigerien information from September 11, 2011, Saadi then fled to Niger and asked for asylum . He was granted this on November 11, 2011 on humanitarian grounds.
• Mutasim-Billah Gaddafi : Safia's third child and Gaddafi's fourth son, born between 1974 and 1977, was a lieutenant colonel in the Libyan army . After an alleged plan to overthrow his father, he fled to Egypt. When Gaddafi forgave him, he returned to Libya and became the leader of the Presidential Guard. On April 21, 2009, he met with Hillary Clinton in the United States , which marked the highest-ranking diplomatic exchange between these countries since their relations were resumed. Mutasim-Billah Gaddafi is said to have been an advisor or chairman of the National Security Council. He and Saif al-Islam were traded as possible successors to their father. On October 20, 2011, Mutasim-Billah was captured and killed in an apparently defenseless prisoner without trial.
• Hannibal Gaddafi : The fourth child and fifth son Gaddafi, born in 1977, attracted attention in 2004 when he drove along the Paris Champs-Elysées at 140 kilometers an hour . He was involved in a number of violent incidents, including beating his pregnant girlfriend, Aline Skaf . In July 2008, he and Skaf, who has since become his wife, were arrested in a Geneva hotel. After two days, they were both released on bail. The Swiss judiciary accused the couple of bodily harm, threats and coercion of two domestic workers. As a result, there was a conflict between Libya and Switzerland (see Libya affair (Switzerland) ). Hannibal Gaddafi is said to have held a military leadership position in the Benghazi region since 2007. On August 29, 2011, according to Algerian information, he fled to Algeria with his mother, half-brother and sister and is now in custody in Lebanon, after having had asylum in Oman .
• Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi : The fifth child and sixth son Gaddafi was born in 1982 and was enrolled at the Technical University of Munich . In Germany he came into conflict with the law on various occasions - among other things because of traffic offenses, arms smuggling and bodily harm. After he left Munich for Libya, the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior declared that his settlement permit had expired. He was also banned from entering Germany. On April 30, 2011, Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi was killed together with three grandchildren of Muammar al-Gaddafi in a NATO air strike on Bab al-Aziziya , his father's residence in Tripoli, as part of the international military operation in Libya, according to Libyan information . The grandchildren were the two year old daughter of son Hannibal, the six month old daughter of Aisha and the 15 month old son of Muhammad Gaddafi.
• Khamis (Chamis) Gaddafi : Safia's sixth child and Gaddafi's seventh and youngest son was born in 1983. Little is known about him. It is believed that he followed a career in the security forces similar to his brothers Al-Saadi and Mutasim-Billah. According to press reports, he died in March 2011 of serious burn injuries sustained in a kamikaze attack by a Libyan air force pilot at his residence at Bab al-Aziziya base . The Libyan regime denied the pilot's crash. On 28/29 In March 2011, pictures of Khamis were shown on Libyan state television, during which he was cheered by supporters of the regime. It was not possible to determine with certainty whether the recordings were new. Most recently he was in command of an elite unit. According to the Libyan rebels, Khamis and Abdullah al-Sanusi died on August 27, 2011 near the cities of Tarhuna and Bani Walid , 80 kilometers southeast of the capital Tripoli .
• Ayesha Gaddafi : Safia's seventh child - as well as the only biological daughter of her and Gaddafi - is a lawyer and joined Saddam Hussein's defense team in 2004 . In 2006 she married her father's cousin, Army Colonel Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi . In 2009 she was made an honorary ambassador for the UN Development Program, where she campaigned against the spread of AIDS and the oppression of women in the Arab world. However, the UN split from her during the 2011 civil war. On August 29, 2011, according to Algerian information, she fled to Algeria with her mother and two brothers, heavily pregnant.
• Hana Gaddafi , born on November 11, 1985, is an adopted daughter of Safia and Muammar al-Gaddafi. After Operation El Dorado Canyon , Gaddafi's regime claimed her death. However, there is evidence that she studied medicine and held a leadership position in Libyan health care.

literature

• Harry Gregory: Gaddafi (= Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch. 61103). From the American by Albert Knierim. With a postscript by Karl Ossiek. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1987, ISBN 3-404-61103-9 .
• Angelo Del Boca: Gheddafi. Una sfida dal deserto. Editori Laterza, Rome 1998, ISBN 88-420-5462-3 .
• Hassan Sadek: Gaddafi. Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7205-2645-3 .

Web links

• Hans Michael Ehl (ARD radio studio Cairo): Portrait of Muammar al Gaddafi: Courted and ostracized - celebrated and hated. On tagesschau.de of October 23, 2011. Accessed October 23, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} One family, lots of power and lots of headlines. ( Memento of February 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Tagesschau (ARD) , accessed on August 24, 2011; Archive version from May 1, 2011 ( Memento from February 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Libya’s first lady owns 20 tons of gold . Al Arabiya. March 6, 2011. Archived from the original on March 9, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 29, 2011. 
3. ↑ Budapest Report - Gaddafi's wife revealed to be Hungarian , Budapest Report. April 18, 2011. Archived from the original on April 25, 2011 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 20, 2011.  
4. ↑ Switzerland blocks any assets of Ghadhafi. In: nzz.ch. February 24, 2011, accessed November 24, 2011 . 
5. ^ Black money. Shrill reserves . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 2011 ( online ).
6. ↑ Britain seeks UN help to target Gaddafi wife's £ 18bn. (No longer available online.) In: thisislondon.co.uk. April 19, 2011, archived from the original on November 24, 2011 ; accessed on November 24, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ First Interview with Gaddafi's Wife Safia . ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CNN 
8. ^ ^{A b} Gaddafi’s family escape Libya net to cross into Algeria , The Guardian. August 29, 2011. 
9. ^ Libya conflict: Gaddafi family 'flee to Algeria' , BBC News. August 29, 2011. 
10. ^ Qaddafi's Wife and 3 of His Children Flee to Algeria , Washington Post. August 29, 2011. 
11. ^ The mass state and terrorism FAZ Net, September 1, 2009
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Background: The assets of Gaddafi GmbH. In: Zeit Online. February 25, 2011, accessed February 25, 2011 . 
13. ↑ Gaddafi survives NATO air strike - son allegedly killed . tt.com, May 1, 2011
14. ↑ ^{a b c d} Isabelle Werenfels: Qaddafis Libya. (PDF 301K, 32 pages; 309 kB) Endlessly stable and resistant to reform? Science and Politics Foundation , July 2008, p. 28 , accessed on May 23, 2011 . 
15. ↑ Gaddafi's son Saadi apparently in Niger . news.ORF.at. September 11, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
16. ↑ Niger grants Saadi al-Ghadhafi asylum. In: NZZ Online from November 11, 2011
17. ↑ PJ Aroon: Hillary's day of interesting meetings. In: Foreign Policy . April 21, 2009, accessed May 19, 2011 . 
18. ^ New Germany , October 25, 2011, p. 7.
19. ↑ Hanspeter Mattes: Short biography of Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi. ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 224 kB) In: Orient , 2005, Issue 1, pp. 5–17; Reference to Hannibal on p. 6. 
20. ^ Traffic riot - Gaddafi's son Hannibal races through Paris. In: Spiegel Online, September 25, 2004.
21. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait of Hannibal Gaddafi son of Muammar: We are innocent . In: Tagesspiegel , October 11, 2008
22. ↑ CH / Gaddafi affair: Two Swiss “prisoners” accused - oil boycott? handelszeitung.ch, July 24, 2008, accessed on October 7, 201.1
23. ↑ ^{a b} Gadhafi's wife and three children left for Algeria . In: Zeit Online , August 29, 2011.
24. ↑ An impossible family . In: Spiegel Online from March 8, 2010.
25. ↑ Gaddafi's son is gone, his debts remain (part 1). Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on February 27, 2011 . 
26. ^ Dinner with the Chief of Police (Part 2). Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on February 27, 2011 . 
27. ^ Entry ban for Gaddafi son , Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 4, 2011
28. ↑ Libya says Gaddafi's youngest son killed in NATO airstrike ; Xinhua , message dated May 1, 2011.
29. ^ Youngest Gaddafi son killed in NATO air strike . In: Der Standard , May 1, 2011.
30. ↑ Ghadhafi's son is most likely dead . In: Tages-Anzeiger , May 2, 2011.
31. ↑ Reports on the death of Gaddafi's son ( memento from April 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
32. ↑ Gadhafi's son is allegedly dead . In: Zeit Online , March 26, 2011.
33. ↑ We stopped Gaddafi's deadly advance . In: faz.net of March 29, 2011.
34. ↑ The ruler's clan. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 25, 2011, p. 17.
35. ↑ houstonianonline.co ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
36. ↑ monstersandcritics.com ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
37. ↑ Aisha, Gaddafi's only daughter. In: The Daily Telegraph, March 22, 2011.
38. ↑ Aisha Gaddafi's propaganda battle . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of April 25, 2011.
39. ↑ Patrick Müller: The Secret of Hana Gaddafi. In: Welt am Sonntag , August 7, 2011.