Gaddafi's son 'violent at Paris hotel'

French prosecutors will take legal action against the youngest son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for his allegedly violent rampage at a Paris hotel, judicial officials said tonight.

Hannibal Gaddafi faces a criminal court summons for allegedly striking his pregnant companion during a stay at a hotel near Paris’ gilded opera house earlier this month, the officials said.

Gaddafi, 28, faces charges of “voluntary violence on a vulnerable person” and unauthorised possession of a pistol, the officials said.

On the evening of February 1, Gaddafi allegedly wielded – but did not shoot - an automatic pistol at the Grand Hotel Intercontinental near the Pera Garnier, police said.

Security agents directed him to his hotel room, which he then damaged, officials said. His companion was briefly admitted to the American Hospital west of Paris.

Hannibal Gaddafi was questioned by police and released. He subsequently left France by plane for Denmark, where he is enrolled at the Copenhagen Business School.

Gaddafi also was at the centre of a separate commotion in September, when police stopped him for speeding and his bodyguards attacked several officers.

One officer was injured, police said. Two bodyguards were briefly detained, and one was given a one-month suspended prison sentence and fined €1,000.