The World : Libyan Businessman Slain
Masked gunmen stormed the fashionable home of a Libyan businessman in Versailles, France, and shot him to death, French police said. There were no immediate suspects or claim of responsibility for the murder of Mohammed Bouzou, 54, chairman of the SA Trame Export firm, headquartered in Nice. A relative of Bouzou had been an official in the government of King Idris I, who was toppled by Col. Moammar Kadafi in 1969. However, police said it is not known if Bouzou was opposed to Kadafi, who has ordered exiled Libyan dissidents to return home or face assassination.
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