He had helped prepare for the explosion that claimed the lives of 22 people in 2017 in Manchester. British justice on Thursday sentenced the brother of the perpetrator of the suicide bombing to life imprisonment, a sentence with a minimum of 55 years.
On March 17, Hashem Abedi was found guilty of the murders of 22 people in the attack claimed by the jihadist group Daesh. He was further convicted of attempted murder and conspiracy to endanger the lives of others. Hashem Abedi would not incur real life imprisonment as he was under 21 at the time of the facts, but several life sentences with a minimum of 30 years.
22 dead and 237 injured
Taken to court from Belmarsh high security prison, the accused refused to go to the room where the sentencing took place and where relatives of the victims came. He was not legally represented, having dismissed the team of lawyers providing his defense.
Hashem Abedi's brother, Salman, detonated his bomb on May 22, 2017, in Manchester at the exit of a concert hall that can accommodate up to 21,000 people, in which the American pop star Ariana Grande had just performed. . Twenty-two people were killed, including teenagers and a child.
At the time of the attack, Hashem Abedi was thousands of kilometers from Manchester, Libya, his home country, where he had left a month before the attack. He was finally arrested on July 17, 2019 on his arrival in London, after being extradited by Libya. In addition to the 22 people killed, "237 were physically injured", including 28 very seriously, had underlined the prosecutor Duncan Penny during his trial and "a total of 670 people were traumatized psychologically". For the prosecutor, the accused was "as guilty" as his brother.
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