Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s parents ‘made him move back to Libya because they were so worried about him being radicalised in BRITAIN’
THE parents of the Manchester bomber moved him back to Libya and confiscated his passport as they were so worried about his radicalisation in Britain, family friends said yesterday.
Salman Abedi, 22, detonated a nail bomb at Manchester Arena on Monday night which killed 22 people and injured 64 others.
It has been said he began to develop extreme religious view several years ago - which saw him moved to join his father Ramadan Abedi in Tripoli.
His father, who has denied his son is linked to militants or the suicide bombing, is allegedly part of the militant Libyan Islamic Fighting Group there.
He continued to insist he was innocent during a TV interview before he was arrested in Libya.
Elders at his mosque in Manchester, where Abedi grew up, had been told to keep a watch on him in recent years, the Times reports.
The man behind the devastating attack is said to have talked his parents into returning his passport after he told them he wanted to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
He reportedly spoke with his family five days ago from Manchester and said he would fly to Saudi Arabia.
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It has since emerged Abedi flew to and from Germany four days before he carried out the attack at an Ariana Grande concert, as intelligence services there desperately try to find out if he had accomplices in the country.
Since the bombing on Monday evening it has emerged security agencies missed numerous chances to stop Abedi.
Among at least five wasted opportunities were a relative telling MI5 this year he was “dangerous” and a neighbour reporting suspicious activity at his home five years ago.
Manchester has been on high alert in the days following the atrocity as multiple raids have been made throughout the city and the country in connection with the investigation in Monday's attack.
Soldiers, armed cops and a bomb squad were scrambled to Hulme in Manchester after reports of a suspicious package - which was later deemed safe.
An arrest this morning in Nuneaton took the total number of those linked to the terror attack in custody to eight after a series of raids across Manchester and Wigan.
A woman had also been arrested in Manchester during an armed raid on a block of flats last night. She was later released without charge.
Britain has seen its terror threat level rise this week to critical – the first time it has been that high in a decade.
In the UK police were in a desperate race against time to find the bomb gang behind the Manchester Arena massacre on Monday night — before more families are destroyed.
Security chiefs believe the deadly device detonated by Salman Abedi was built by other ISIS fanatics in a city centre flat.
Eight men have now been arrested over the devastating attack which saw 22 people killed and 64 injured.