In Libya, infamous lawyers Roland Dumas, Jacques Verges offer to defend Gaddafi

By Simon Denyer, Published: May 29
TRIPOLI, Libya — If Moammar Gaddafi ever needs a legal defense team at The Hague, he may already have his men.

Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, whose career was plagued by scandal and who served as an attorney for Saddam Hussein, turned up in Tripoli on Sunday alongside Jacques Verges, a man nicknamed “the Devil’s Advocate” for defending some of the world’s most notorious figures, including Klaus Barbie and Carlos the Jackal.

They came to the Libyan capital to take up a case against NATO on behalf of 13 families who say their relatives have been killed in alliance airstrikes. The pair said they were also ready to defend Libya’s leader at the International Criminal Court if needed and invited.

“In that case we would say yes,” the 88-year-old Dumas said. “But we believe it will not happen.”

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