Leaders of Didsbury Mosque attended by Arena bomber guilty of 'wilful blindness' to highly-charged debate about Libya conflict before atrocity, inquiry finds
The leaders of a mosque attended by Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi were guilty of ‘wilful blindness’ to highly-charged political debate about the conflict raging in Libya before the atrocity, the public inquiry into the atrocity has found.
A public inquiry into the atrocity concluded the mosque was ‘not an active factor or cause’ of the Libyan-heritage bomber’s radicalisation, although it criticised the ‘unreliable’ evidence of Fawzi Haffar, the chair of trustees at Didsbury Mosque who was accused of ‘wilful blindness’ about the charged atmosphere at the mosque before 2017 about the conflict in Libya.
Mr El-Saeiti said weeks after he had delivered the sermon, there were two 'encounters' with Salman Abedi although they never spoke. In one Salman Abedi, who was with his brother Hashem, 'gave me a hateful look'. Mr Haffar ‘tended to downplay the strength of the links between the mosque and the Abedi family, said Sir John.
He went on: “Even if it is the case that in the immediate aftermath of the attack, the leadership of Didsbury Mosque did not have an understanding of the strength of the Abedi family’s links to the mosque, in the course of engaging with the Inquiry the leadership should have investigated matters more thoroughly and provided a more complete and accurate account of the Abedis’ connection.
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