The man who attacked the synagogue of Manchester Last Thursday (2/10/2025), killing two Jewish believers, he appeared to have called the Police to declare that he was acting on behalf of the Islamic State, as it became known today, Wednesday (8/10/2025), by the Anti -Terrorism Service.
The perpetrator Jihad al -Sami, 35, a British citizen of Syrian descent, phoned the police after He dragged in his pedestrian car and attacked passers -by outside the synagogue of Hitton Park in the Crabseri district in Manchesteraccording to journalistic sources citing police.
Armed police officers fired and killed Al Sami at the point It became known later that the police also accidentally killed one of the victims on their attempt to stop the perpetrator.
A spokesman for the Northwest of England’s anti -terrorist police said that during the first phase of the attack Al Sami He phoned police officers and swore faith in the Islamic State.
Last week, anti -terrorist leader Lawrence Taylor said the authorities believed al -Sami may have been affected by extreme Islamist ideology, But it would take time to determine all the details.
The perpetrator was not known in the anti -terrorist, though he had a criminal record and recently He was arrested in the rape charge but was released on a guarantee, Taylor said.
Two more men were planning an attack on the Jewish community
In the meantime, today the trial of two men who according to prosecutors began planned an attack, inspired by the Islamic State, against the Jewish community of northwestern England, in order to “kill hundreds of innocent people”.
Walid Saadawi, 38 years old and Amar Hussein, 52, are accused of Planning of terrorist acts While the first brother of the first, 36 -year -old Billel Saadwi is accused of Hide information related to terrorist acts. All three have declared innocent.
Judge Mark Wall told the jurors that the case It has nothing to do with the deadly attack on Manchester’s synagogue and the time the trial is taking place is simply coincidental.
According to prosecutors, the first two defendants “are embraced the views of the so -called Islamic State (…) and were prepared to risk their lives” to become “witnesses”.
When arrested in May 2024, the Walid Saadau He had arranged to smuggle two offensive rifles in the UK, an automatic pistol and ammunition, and would later be handed over three other weapons, prosecutor Harpit Sandu said. The rifles, which were “capable of causing incalculable damage”, were similar to those used in 2015 in Paris attacks, where 130 people were killed, he added.
THE Amar Hussein In fact, he interrupted the prosecutor shouting “How many babies?”
According to Sandu, the drawing of the two key defendants was ‘To identify a gathering of Jews, in which they could attack’ Along with a third man who thought he was called “Farouk”. “In addition, they intended to kill whichever police officer was obstructing them,” he added.
Walid Saadawi and Amar Hussein were arrested because Faroukfor whom they thought he “wanted to kill hundreds of innocents, like they”, He was actually a secret policeman.
THE Billel Saadaui He would not participate in the attack but shared the views of the Islamic State, and his brother, Walid, had given him money to take care of his family after his death.