London Bridge terrorist Youssef Zaghba's mother 'feels pain' of son's victims

Youssef Zaghba's Italian mother says she thought her son had abandoned extremist views and found a good job in London.
Mother of London terror attacker Youssef Zaghba speaks to Sky's Ian Woods

The mother of London Bridge terrorist Youssef Zaghba has said she "feels the pain" of her son's victims and their families.
Valeria Collina told Sky News she had a "regular conversation" with her son two days before he launched a van and knife killing spree with two other extremists, although he sounded "sad".
She said she had previously worked with authorities to prevent her son from travelling to Syria, but thought he had found a good job and was "doing well" since moving to London.
She said: "I have no words, it is too big. I say I can understand their pain because as a mother I feel it too.
"If there was any point in asking for forgiveness, I would do so.
"I am very sorry...people need to know how sorry I am."
Ms Collina said she found out about the attack on the internet and tried to contact Zaghba, 22.
She said: "I couldn't get hold of my son and realised he may have had something to do with it.
"When he was in London he had a good job and was doing well. I had no idea about his extreme views.
"I was so ignorant of what was going on. He sent me videos in which he was so relaxed.
"I couldn't believe what happened, it should never have happened."
She had been due to visit her son in London next week to mark the end of Ramadan.
Ms Collina, a convert to Islam who is separated from Zaghba's Morocco-based father, told Italian weekly L'Espresso she blamed the internet for her son becoming radicalised.
She said: "He had internet and that is where everything came from.
"He never let himself be led by anyone, neither in Italy, nor in Morocco, where he was studying computing at the University of Fez."
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She said her son had shown her videos about Syria before his March 2016 attempt to board a flight for Turkey, apparently with the intention of reaching its conflict-torn neighbour.
She added: "But he never spoke about going to fight there. For him Syria was a place where you could live according to a pure Islam. The way he told it was a fantasy... transmitted to him over the internet.
"I always told him there were horrible things they did not show. but I wasn't able to make him change his mind."
Now she is vowing to fight against the ideology that fuelled her son's extremism.
She said: "There is one thing I can do - I can make a commitment to combat this - me personally.
"I am part of the Islamic community, therefore I can decide to spread the knowledge of the real Islam for the rest of my life."

By;Worldcoinsmoney.blogspot.com
LONDON.

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