“I apologize to the people of Libya and the brothers in the Libyan state for the disturbance and destabilization I have caused in Libya, and I admit those were wrong things that I should not have done,” he said.
Saadi, one of Gadahfi’s seven sons, has been in a Tripoli jail since his extradition earlier this month from neighboring Niger. The North African country had been seeking the handover of Saadi, who fled across the border to Niger when rebel forces toppled his father in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
He has not appeared in court yet and no formal charges against him have been announced, but the government has said it has evidence linking Saadi Gadhafi to recent unrest in southern Libya.
“I call on all the people carrying weapons to disarm, weapons should only be in the hands of the state,” Saadi Gadhafi, dressed in a blue detainee suit, said in the video. “They should resort to reconciliation.”
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