Salman Abedi’s family radicalised him, and the security services failed to contain that threat
Ramadan Abedi had done his best as a father, he insisted.
He tried to intervene with his sons when he “found their thinking is wrong”, but it hadn’t worked. He could almost have been shrugging off a set of flunked GCSEs, or some minor teenage brush with the law. But in fact that whiny, self-justifying message to his sister was written after his son Salman detonated a shrapnel-packed bomb in the crowd leaving an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, killing 22 people.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
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