Judicial sources confirmed that the International Cooperation Office of the Public Prosecution is in contact with the Libyan Public Prosecution in order to participate in the investigation held with the arrested terrorists who confessed about participating in beheading the Copts in Sirte on February 2015. The source said that the investigation authorities in Libya notified the Egyptian counterpart of the details of the investigations with the executor and photographer of the beheading of Egyptian Copts in the Libyan city of Sirte.
The sources pointed out that the Public Prosecution continues following-up the search and dig out of the Copts beheaded in Libya bodies to dissect them and hand them over to their families, adding that the search of the place of “mass grave” where the Copts are buried is difficult and will take several days to coordinate between the various authoroties in Libya , And the cemetery is located in a desert area, making it difficult to excavate and dig out the bodies.
It is worth mentioning that the Libyan Public Prosecutor Assistant al-Sadiq al-Sour announced the nationality of the Islamic terrorists who beheaded 20 Coptic labourers and one Ghanaian in the coastal town of Sirte, Libya, in January 2015. Responsibility for the beheading was claimed by Daesh, also known as Islamic State, IS. Egypt had back then retaliated with air strikes against Daesh camps and arms and ammunition stores in the region.
Mr Sour said that it took a series of complicated procedures to catch one of the militants involved in the crime: the cameraman who videotaped the beheading which took place behind Mahary Hotel west of Sirte, and which sent shivers of horror throughout the whole world.
The arrested militant, who “observed and oversaw the incident,” gave the Libyan authorities all details about the killings, Sour said at a press conference in Tripoli. He described the militant as “one of most dangerous” fighters in the Libyan IS group. The militant also informed authorities about where the victims’ bodies were buried.
He also said that the investigations are still ongoing with some terroristic cells that had controlled Sirte during the past few years; the investigation which is taking place in Tripoli involves cell leaders from Egypt, Tunisia, Niger, Turkey, Chad and Saudi Arabia. The Libyan army has managed to kill dozens from Daesh in Sirte and was able to stop supplies from reaching them, and communications with their leaders in Iraq and Syria.
In a press conference, the Public Prosecutor Assistant published the pictures of some of the accused and sentenced in addition to some of those who escaped or killed by the Libyan forces during the liberation of Sirte.
