More than 250 survivors of the Manchester Arena attack in 2017 have launched proceedings aimed at filing a complaint against the British intelligence services. Their action was crushed last year following an independent investigation, their lawyers said on Sunday.
On May 22, 2017, a 22-year-old British man of Libyan origin, Salman Abedi, detonated a bomb outside this concert hall, after a show by pop star Ariana Grande, killing seven children and 15 adults. In 2020, the brother of the attacker, Hashem Abedi,. was sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum of 55 years in. prison, for helping him make the bomb for this attack claimed by the jihadist group. Islamic State. In March 2023, the final report of a long public inquiry condemned MI5 for processing information which could have made it possible to prevent the attack. In the process, the director general of domestic intelligence, Ken McCallum, said he was “deeply sorry” that MI5 had not managed “to avoid the attack”