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THE MOTHER OF one of the Paris attackers has told a local Belgian television station that she had missed the warning signs, and not spotted that her son had been radicalised.
Fatima Hadfi, who said she was the mother of Bilal Hadfi who blew himself up outside the Stade de France in Paris, phoned into Maghreb TV late Saturday, surprising the presenter.
In the recording of the call on the station’s website, she complained that the French authorities were still holding her son’s body and she could not understand why it had not been released for burial.
The presenter asked her to explain how Bilal Hadfi, 20, had become involved with the jihadist attackers, several of whom came from Brussels, and why she had not seen any warning signs before he left for Syria in February.
“You could not see anything (different) with him. He was like everybody else,” Fatima Hadfi said, speaking mostly in French.
He was a good boy, friendly and helpful but despite all that, they knew how to get around him.
Asked what role her son had played in the attacks, she said: “I have no idea at all.”
Press reports Saturday said the Belgian authorities were questioning staff at Bilal Hadfi’s college in Brussels after warnings that he was becoming radicalised were missed.
The college reportedly informed the education authorities of their concerns in April after he went to Syria but the warning was not passed on to police and only came to light after the 13 November attacks.
Fatima Hadfi told Maghreb TV that she was sure that people listening to her would wonder how she could not have noticed any changes in her son’s behaviour.
“I have said that to myself. I should have listened more closely, I should have been closer to my children,” she said.
Maghreb TV Belgique serves mainly the local Moroccan community in Belgium.
The Belgian authorities are still looking for suspects linked to the attacks on a Paris concert hall, restaurants, bars and the national stadium which left 130 people dead.
On Thursday, they announced they had charged a ninth person.
AFP could not independently verify the identity of the woman who called into the station as Fatima Hadfi.
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All those counties are cold on sunny days
Jealous
@Dave: all the comments on the travellers in Mayo are deleted and no more comments allowed. Has Trump taken over the Journal?
Nope! It’s a minefield for liberal progressives. They don’t know who to support for fear of being labeled a racist, bigot, literally Hitler etc.
Good. Most of the commenrs were disgusting and / or infantile. If you don’t like being censored, try saying something constructive instead of indulging yourself in an orgy of filth.
I hope the protesting travellers are wrapped up nice and warm in someone else’s coats
Working bigotry and xenophobia into a weather article. Impressive.
A bit of cold and they issue a warning. Christ we are soft these days.
You’d want to be careful walking up the mountain in this weather but if you’re not and slip sure you can always sue.
Once its not Dublin. Who cares.
I’m sure all the anti water protesters will be running their taps overnight to stop the pipes freezing
I think anyone is Anti Water.
*don’t
@Peter Cavey: by not paying water charges I have more money to keep background hearing on and thereby to avoid frozen pipes. I don’t need to run the taps.
A lot of people in these counties are on rural group water schemes and this pay for their water. Thus running taps would be an incredible foolish thing to do.
Twit
@Peter Cavey: I think those water meters were suppose to crack under certain frosty conditions, here’s hoping?
Up the Dubs
I’m anti water too. Hate the stuff.
Your right too. Scary fact: 100% of organisms that consume water will die.
But if you do skid on the black ice, and slide into a wall and damage your bumper, and perhaps even scratch your knee off the underside of the dash, – don’t worry, . You can sue the NRA for not salting the road, Sue the wall owner for the damage to your car, and Sue the car manufacturer for the scratch on your knee.
The judges in this banana republic are bound to pay out on one of them …
Be careful out there – sort-of.
These counties otherwise known as the Provinces of Connaught and Ulster in the Republic…just in case you aren’t sure which of the four you are situated!
Just sayin….it’s easier to name the two provinces than list every county in them!
BORING!
So more than that then?
Oh feckk.
Funny how it freezes in Cavan, Monaghan & Donegal but not in Fermanagh or Tyrone. Strange stuff this frost!
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