France, Feb. 4 -- The 53-year-old was shot dead on Tuesday at his residence in Zintan, a city in Libya's northwest.According to those around him, four unidentified armed men broke intoKadhafi's home before killing him.

Since his release from prison in 2016, Saif al-Islam had been living in seclusion in Zintan with only two employees, in an isolated villa on a mountain overlooking the Hamada Desert.

For security reasons, he led an extremely discreet life and communicated only with a very small circle, small enough to be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Son of former Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi shot dead in home A reformist image

Under his father's rule, Saif al-Islam cultivated the image of a reformer. Educated in London and flue...