Tunisia gunman: Mother says he couldn’t kill a mouse, but killed 38 people

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Saif Rezgui
Saif Rezgui
The mother of the Tunisian beach gunman says her son once refused to kill a mouse because he “couldn’t kill anything”.

Radhia Manai, 49, said she believed Seifeddine Rezgui, who was killed by security forces after the rampage in the Sousse tourist resort, had been brainwashed into carrying out the attack.

Rezgui opened fire on holidaymakers sunbathing on the beach on Friday June 26, shooting 38 people dead.

“When they told me my son had killed all these people I said `no, it’s impossible’. I couldn’t believe, I can’t believe it,” his mother told the Sunday Times.

“Once there was a mouse in the house and I asked Seifeddine to kill it and he refused saying, ‘I can’t kill anything’.

“God bless the victims, all those people and their poor families, and I feel so sorry but I want to tell them it wasn’t my son who did this, it was a different Seifeddine.

“I think someone was pressuring my son to do this. Maybe they said, ‘Do this or we’ll kill you’. My son is a victim like all the others. I want to know who is the head of all this, who did this to him and I want them to go to prison or be killed.”

Manai said she hoped the British authorities “will get to the bottom of this” as she described the 23-year-old student as a music and football fan.

According to the paper, his parents first learned of the massacre when police arrived to question them at their home in Gaafour, more than 160km from Sousse.

State of emergency
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday to give his government more powers

Tunisia’s emergency law temporarily gives the government more executive flexibility, hands the army and police more authority, and restricts certain rights such as the right to public assembly.

The attack on the Sousse beach resort last Friday followed a gun attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis in March – two of the worst militant assaults in Tunisia’s modern history, and a pressing threat to its vital tourist industry.

Tunisian officials said all three gunmen in those two attacks had been trained at the same time, over the border in jihadist camps in Libya, where a conflict between two rival governments has allowed Islamist militant groups to gain ground.

In reaction to militant recruiters, the government says it will close 80 mosques that are operating illegally or preaching extremist messages.

Agencies/SBS

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6 responses to “Tunisia gunman: Mother says he couldn’t kill a mouse, but killed 38 people”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Closing Mosques isn’t going to help … just get rid of the TALKING HEADS in them
    “Tunisian officials said all three gunmen in those two attacks had been trained” (BRAINWASHED) “at the same time, over the border in jihadist camps in Libya,” ….

    1. There are over 2 million mosques in the world 5th, the radicals are a small minority but the majority of moderates are NOT taking on the issue as they SHOULD of how a young man unable to kill a mouse yet finds pleasure in murdering 38 sunbathers in the name of Islam and Allah.

      ONLY the talking heads in other mosques can take on radicalization and call it what it really is ( Islamic state is satan ISIS ) If a christian, a Jew or an Athiest comments about this automatically some will call him an islamaphobe or a bigot and the subject is skewed in a different direction and accusation of bias and hypocrisy become the star of the show, the responsibility of sanitizing the image of Islam lies on the hands of leaders of that faith, but even Dr Z circumvents responsibility and places the whole breakdown on either america or zionists as the cause.

      If killing 38 sunbathers can be taught as an act of martyrdom by a cleric why aren’t there 2 million other clerics acting as martyrs of moderation and discrediting this horrid act as something permitted by Islam? chickens? bak bak bak bak ba baaaak!

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        If no-one can refute or disagree with a word from the ‘Scholars’, or write a book or a treatise without fear of being Fatwahed to death, then the non-violent average Imam and citizen dares not raise a voice anyway, and that has been well-ingrained into the psyche BY ‘The Rules’ laid down in ‘The Book’ – which habits must be memorized TOTALLY by a child.
        Automatic Chickening, set to be Broilers.

    2. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
      Michaelinlondon1234

      America and the UK have been setting the moral example for decades.
      It is OK to kill and OK to go in to other peoples countries and organise killing and Kill….Why do we get so surprised when Individuals take the same approach?

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Their mothers are … they didn’t raise them to die. Usually.

  2. Hussein Avatar
    Hussein

    This is the teaching of umar and sunni death cult

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