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messages in spray paint minefield for new leaders, while the initial claim of building owners billion

Dhahran Street in downtown Tripoli, is not much to look at. On the one hand, the state oil company Mellitah - Gaddafi was a concrete monstrosity in green and white stripes. The opposite is a very attractive stucco block of three floors collapsed in a few grocery Aqar Wissam al-occupied unit in the corner.

Legend has it that once you get off at Dhahran Mussolini during the colonial era. But what is striking about these days is an Arabic phrase scrawled in red paint on a wall next to the store: "This building is the rightful property and legacy of Muhammad al-Jafairya"

such property claims can be seen around Tripoli and around the country, alongside slogans, waving triumphantly to the fall of the man they call simply "the tyrant." And how the original owners get in touch - or to be compensated by - the billions of dollars in lost property is one of the most difficult questions and meet the new leaders of Libya

The issue of the return back to the 1970s, when tens of thousands of homes, offices, shops and other premises were confiscated under the Act No. 4 - and given, sold or leased cheap new rights to occupants were legitimized by the Green Paper from home truths revolutionary Muammar Gaddafi.

Aqar not squatters, paid the rent. But it is only because Jafairya managed to recover two stores in Dhahran Street building, in spite of their apartments - raises thorny legal questions over -. Keep out of reach

"I pay the son of the owner of 350 dinars [E 180] a month," he said, Aqar called the customer buys. "He has this store and the next. But now I fear that eventually get all new construction and set up the rent or sell it for redevelopment of a hotel or something and I have to leave. "

Sami, a consultant whose family had an apartment block near Dimashq There, calls the issue of the return of Pandora's box because of its complexity and potential cascading effects. "The chance fell Gaddafi and sold a lot of what had been kidnapped - and then sold it to people she sold a lot," he said. "How can you separate that?"

The issue has resurfaced, sometimes violently, as the regime fell in August. In many cases, in Tripoli and Tajoura near Souq al-Jumaa and armed fighters have simply seized certain property and returned to their original owners.

"Possession is nine tenths of the law and people use the rebels to claim their property back," said Zaptia. "Our building was demolished and replaced by a revolutionary committee office, but the land is worth millions. I'm waiting for the rule of law established. "

a court order has not always been favorable to the end of the story. "Even if you got the compensation proposed and accepted, I always had to bribe someone to make sure the money was actually paid into your bank account," says another provider who refused to be identified.
Gaddafi himself with outstanding claims with the Vatican and Italy. But there was no agreement with a rich Jewish population in Libya, which has faced pressure on Israel and fled in 1960 and 1970, after the pogroms and the adoption of anti-Semitic laws. His property is estimated at billions.