Presidential candidate Suleiman Al-Bayoudi commented on the Hawari incident, in which the Benghazi Security Directorate confirmed in its preliminary findings that citizen Hassan Khairallah Al-Zwai killed six of his children by shooting and a seventh by torture, considering that “the scene of the murdered children and their father is a pain in the soul, and a heartbreak.”
In a post on his Facebook page, Al-Bayoudi attacked what he described as a “systematic campaign” to exploit the tragedy to target political opponents, saying: “What is more calamitous and painful is that choir thirsty for spreading poison and falsehoods, accustomed to trading in blood and spreading a culture of death; they were not deterred by the horror of the image or the magnitude of the tragedy.”
He explained that “these people rushed to use the innocence of childhood by launching a campaign of lies, deceit, and misinformation, which parallels their own filth, sickness, and desire to return the country to a state of chaos and bloodshed.” He added: “The paradox is that they are a current that excels only at raising just causes on the tips of spears to distort them, and turning them into a cheap duel in which it justifies its sickness and failure.”