Libyan nomad gave up Gaddafi’s son despite €1m offer

SAIF al-Islam Gaddafi was betrayed by a Libyan nomad, who says he was hired to help Muammar Gaddafi’s son escape to neighbouring Niger on the promise that he would be paid €1 million.

Saif al-Islam, wanted for prosecution by the International Criminal Court, was captured at the weekend in what one official in the country’s new government said was “the final chapter in Libya’s drama”.

With a black scarf wrapped around his head, Yussef Saleh al-Hotmani said that he contacted revolutionary fighters in Libya’s south to inform them when Saif’s two-car convoy would be passing through the area on the night of November 18.