Father Of Suspected Terrorist Defends His Son

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Salman Abedi's father, the alleged perpetrator of the Manchester massacre, says his son is innocent. Ramadan Abedi told The Associated Press that he did not believe his 22-year-old son was guilty of the explosion that killed 22 people and injured more than 50 at an Ariana Grande concert in England. We do not believe in the killing of the innocent. We are not like that,”said Ramadan Abedi.

The father also denied that his son was linked to terrorist groups. Ramadan Abedi said he spoke to his son five days ago and it sounded "normal". According to him, the young man had plans to travel to Saudi Arabia to celebrate Ramadan with his family.

Hashem Abedi, the younger brother of Salman Abedi - who died when he allegedly detonated the bomb at the Manchester Arena - was also arrested on Tuesday. Hashem Abedi's arrest is reported to have been for alleged links to ISIS. It was also confirmed that another of his sons, Ismail, had been arrested after the explosion that took place minutes after the end of the concert. According to media reports, Ramadan Abedi fled with his family from Libya in 1993 when Muammar Gaddafi's officers tried to arrest him and asked for asylum in Britain.

"My son was religious like any child who opens his eyes within a religious family," Ramadan Abedi told Bloomberg News. "When we talked about similar attacks previously, he was always against those attacks, saying there was no religious justification for that. I don't understand how he could have been involved in an attack that caused the killing of children.”

For its part, the terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the explosion in a video in which one of its members holds a sign with the word Manchester and the date of the attack.