The protests
came a day after demonstrators in Paris and Rome held rallies in front of the
Libyan embassies in those cities.
The French demonstrators
denounced their country’s military role in the Libyan uprising in 2011, when
the then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy pushed for military strikes in Libya.
The protests was prompted by a
CNN video report, released last week, which showed sub-Saharan Africans being
sold at slave auctions for as little as $400.
After widespread outrage, Libyan
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Metig vowed, in a statement posted on Facebook,
that his UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) would investigate the
“slave market” allegations in the North African country.
Libya has faced a power vacuum
since a NATO military intervention resulted in the downfall of its longtime
dictator, Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Since then, the country has been grappling
with chaos and the emergence of numerous militant groups, including the Daesh
terrorist group.
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