0:00:13 > 0:00:21attack on teenagers and live music finds its place in the city again.
0:00:22 > 0:00:3150,000 turn out for the home town band.
0:00:32 > 0:00:39And you'll never prevail and not against us, because this is our
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Manchester... Our Manchester... And the bees still buzz... .
0:00:43 > 0:00:56CHEERING AND APPLAUSE The ultimate show of strength, you
0:00:57 > 0:00:59can hear it and see it. Resilience and solidarity can't be
0:01:00 > 0:01:06the only response to the worst attack this city has seen. But right
0:01:07 > 0:01:10now it's what they need. People's passion, isn't it, music? And if
0:01:11 > 0:01:18people are scared to go out and listen to music, that is not right.
0:01:19 > 0:01:19It's not right, so, this act of defiance will be, hopefully, quite
0:01:20 > 0:01:46inspiring for us as well as them. It is now a week since thousands of
0:01:47 > 0:01:49young girls were looking forward to another concert. American superstar
0:01:50 > 0:01:55Ariana Grande. Ariana Grande. She is like an actor
0:01:56 > 0:02:00on like my two favourite TV shows and she's got a really good voice.
0:02:01 > 0:02:07Ten-year-old Poppy Cousins had a ticket. Sisters Hannah Safiyya and
0:02:08 > 0:02:09Sumayya were taken to the concert by their older brother, Gibran. The
0:02:10 > 0:02:16morning that the tickets were released, they pestered me the night
0:02:17 > 0:02:18before to make sure I could be on the computer at 9 to purchase the
0:02:19 > 0:02:29tickets. The Manchester Arena was packed with
0:02:30 > 0:02:34more than 20,000 fans. Suzanne Browning was with her
0:02:35 > 0:02:39daughter, Phoebe. It was really a happy atmosphere.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44There was people with children, from two years old, toddlers on their
0:02:45 > 0:02:48parent's shoulders. Five-year-old girls in rara dresses. Teenage girls
0:02:49 > 0:02:50looking like they were on their first night out. It was mums and
0:02:51 > 0:03:02kids that were there. It was Daisy Porter's first gig. She
0:03:03 > 0:03:06was there with her parents, Gareth and Sarah, who has motor neurone
0:03:07 > 0:03:11disease. She was mesmerised. She said to me, she said, I want to go
0:03:12 > 0:03:13to a concert every week, dad. I definitely want to go to a concert
0:03:14 > 0:03:24every week. I love it. Didn't she? Every song that came on, I was
0:03:25 > 0:03:26taking videos as a memory so when I came home I could have a bit of the
0:03:27 > 0:03:40concert with me. Just after 10.30pm, minutes after
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Ariana Grande had left the stage, the innocence of a generation was
0:03:43 > 0:03:53shattered. Oh, my God! What's going on? What
0:03:54 > 0:04:00just happened? A bomb had been detonated in the foyer of the arena.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05Oh, my God! The sound just came out of nowhere. Everyone stopped for a
0:04:06 > 0:04:09split second trying to figure out what was going on. Suddenly people
0:04:10 > 0:04:15were screaming, running to the nearest exit.
0:04:16 > 0:04:22The Porter family were already at the exit. They were caught up in the
0:04:23 > 0:04:29blast. I was looking to the centre, to the right of the actual foyer
0:04:30 > 0:04:33part. I just saw bang - just, it lit up. The heat in your face, bang. It
0:04:34 > 0:04:37come from nowhere. The next thing, just stuff came
0:04:38 > 0:04:49flying out through the doors. Thought, oh, my God, it's a suicide
0:04:50 > 0:04:56bomber, straightaway. I just looked down. I was thinking, what's that on
0:04:57 > 0:05:03the floor? It... And then I realised there was an arm attached to it.
0:05:04 > 0:05:10So, I grabbed Sarah and Daisy. Threw her back, said, run, run.
0:05:11 > 0:05:16Families being separated, friends being separated from each other.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Some parents even handing their children over the railing so their
0:05:22 > 0:05:25children could escape. I wasn't really sure what it was. It
0:05:26 > 0:05:29was not knowing what it was that scared me.
0:05:30 > 0:05:31My daughter ran off in the opposite direction. She started running
0:05:32 > 0:05:35because she thought it was a terrorist attack and she thought
0:05:36 > 0:05:41there was going to be shooters. That hadn't entered my head. This is what
0:05:42 > 0:05:44kids see these days. I grabbed both my sisters and I
0:05:45 > 0:05:48thought, probably not a good idea to run to an exit. I saw people being
0:05:49 > 0:05:52separated. I didn't want that to happen to us. I just thought people
0:05:53 > 0:05:55will come in shooting. I thought, well, if that is the case, I want to
0:05:56 > 0:05:59get into the stadium part. At least if I go in there I've got a fighting
0:06:00 > 0:06:03chance to hide. Poppy and her dad, Jamie, had left
0:06:04 > 0:06:09moments before the bomb went off and were in a lift.
0:06:10 > 0:06:16The lift wasn't moving, which, as a parent, you know, you're stuck in a
0:06:17 > 0:06:19lift with your ten-year-old child. Conscious that there's something not
0:06:20 > 0:06:24quite right. We saw an exit, which none was really using. So, we ran
0:06:25 > 0:06:29towards there. And ran down the stairwell. Came out.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33Suzanne had been separated from her daughter, Phoebe.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38I was crying. I couldn't get my breath. I didn't know where she was.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42I had seen people covered in blood. Didn't have a clue where my daughter
0:06:43 > 0:06:50was. Couldn't get her on the phone. It is indescipable.
0:06:51 > 0:06:57Paddy Ennis was the first paramedic on the scene. It was surreal. It was
0:06:58 > 0:07:06almost like walking into a film set. It didn't seem real. There were
0:07:07 > 0:07:12people everywhere. People were shouting and screaming and injured.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17It was very immediately apparent there were an awful lot of people
0:07:18 > 0:07:20that were very seriously injured. It was almost immediately apparent that
0:07:21 > 0:07:25there were a lot of people beyond any help.
0:07:26 > 0:07:34Jamie and Poppy managed to get out of the lift. It was a real strong
0:07:35 > 0:07:38sense of burning, like the smell on bonfire night.
0:07:39 > 0:07:44I didn't know if I was going to get hit or like we wouldn't have been
0:07:45 > 0:07:50able to get out, and people were collapsing. People were like
0:07:51 > 0:07:55screaming. And I was just really scared.
0:07:56 > 0:08:01There were white T-shirts being used for bandages. People were covering
0:08:02 > 0:08:08people with them. It was only, it was only some time into the incident
0:08:09 > 0:08:13I realised they were the Ariana Grande T-shirts.
0:08:14 > 0:08:20It just struck me, my nine-year-old is an Ariana Grande fan. I realised
0:08:21 > 0:08:28how many young people had been at this incident and were involved in
0:08:29 > 0:08:33this, you know, in front of me. Gareth, Sarah and Daisy were helped
0:08:34 > 0:08:37out of the building by security. There was kids there with people,
0:08:38 > 0:08:45can't find me mum, can't find me mum. And just on its own, because
0:08:46 > 0:08:54it's a concert, isn't it? It's for kids. I mean, young kids.
0:08:55 > 0:09:02I just remember suddenly being aware of phones ringing. All over. Ringing
0:09:03 > 0:09:05and vibrating. And then it was at that point I realised my own phone
0:09:06 > 0:09:07had been ringing for probably an hour and it was my wife, desperately
0:09:08 > 0:09:21wanting to know if I was OK. Suzanne and Phoebe were eventually
0:09:22 > 0:09:29reunited. We just hugged each other for about ten minutes and we were
0:09:30 > 0:09:32sobbing our hearts out. I think that I won't feel as safe any more
0:09:33 > 0:09:37outside. Because if it could happen in like an arena on a normal school
0:09:38 > 0:09:45day, it could happen anywhere, any time. It's just, I don't feel safe.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49If we were a second or two earlier, or a metre in front, we would have
0:09:50 > 0:09:53been in that foyer, wouldn't we? We would have been in there with that
0:09:54 > 0:09:58blast and we probably wouldn't be here today.
0:09:59 > 0:10:0522 people died at the Manchester Arena on May 22nd. The youngest was
0:10:06 > 0:10:16eight years old. 116 people were injured.
0:10:17 > 0:10:27Hours after the suicide attack, police started raiding addresses
0:10:28 > 0:10:33across Greater Manchester. This house in Fallowfield was one of
0:10:34 > 0:10:39the first. Home to the bomber, 22-year-old Salman Abedi. This is
0:10:40 > 0:10:47him caught on CCTV on his way to the arena. Abedi was born on New Year's
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Eve in Manchester in 1994, to Libyan parents. The second son of six
0:10:51 > 0:11:02children, four boys and two girls. Schooled in the city, he went to
0:11:03 > 0:11:06mosques in the city, grew up in the city. Those who knew him can't
0:11:07 > 0:11:14believe Abedi carried out the attack.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18This guy didn't seem like he had the ability to do anything like that. He
0:11:19 > 0:11:23didn't seem to be the type of person to be that involved, that engaged.
0:11:24 > 0:11:29One of Abedi's oldest friends agreed to speak to us anonymously.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33I've known him for about 20 years. I've known him and his family. As
0:11:34 > 0:11:36far as I can remember, I've known him. His words are spoken by an
0:11:37 > 0:11:40actor. It still doesn't seem to make sense
0:11:41 > 0:11:44that someone would just walk into a crowd of people and just blow
0:11:45 > 0:11:53himself up. And that's someone I know. That's someone I had trusted.
0:11:54 > 0:12:01Abedi's father, Ramadan, a security officer in Libya, and his mother
0:12:02 > 0:12:11Samia came to Britain to escape the regime of Colonel Gaddafi.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15In the 90s, a lot of people came as refugees, escaping the tyranny of
0:12:16 > 0:12:23Colonel Gaddafi. And including the family of this terrorist. They came
0:12:24 > 0:12:29fleeing Gaddafi's terror. And they were welcomed by Manchester and by
0:12:30 > 0:12:32British society. And this is the sadness of it, is that one of his
0:12:33 > 0:12:43children does this. Abedi was a pupil at Burnage Academy
0:12:44 > 0:12:47for Boys, the local comprehensive. He had a reputation as a
0:12:48 > 0:12:53troublemaker and a loner. His friend was at a different
0:12:54 > 0:12:57school, but they kept in touch. He constantly got involved into fights
0:12:58 > 0:13:03and quite a few times he's been to hospital with broken limbs. Started
0:13:04 > 0:13:11taking a lot of weed, and that kind of brought him a different crowd.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15That crowd - gangs. Abedi became a familiar face in
0:13:16 > 0:13:21areas known for gang violence and mixed with people linked to gangs
0:13:22 > 0:13:26and drugs. He had a reputation for drinking and smoking cannabis. One
0:13:27 > 0:13:33girl we spoke to also remembers Abedi cycling around reading aloud
0:13:34 > 0:13:41from the Koran. When Abedi turned 16, he left Manchester for Libya. He
0:13:42 > 0:13:43and his brothers Hashem and Ismail joined their father, who was
0:13:44 > 0:13:56fighting to overthrow Gaddafi. He told me in 2011 he went back to
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Libya and received some training. He said in the mountainous region, I'm
0:14:01 > 0:14:03not sure if he was ever involved in fighting, but he just said weapons
0:14:04 > 0:14:10training. But was it more than training? We
0:14:11 > 0:14:17understand the brothers and their father joined rebel fighters.
0:14:18 > 0:14:24I think what happened during the uprising against Gaddafi was that
0:14:25 > 0:14:30many young people from Libyan origin living in the UK found a sense of
0:14:31 > 0:14:32identity in the revolution. They found that they are Libyans and it
0:14:33 > 0:14:48was a good time to be a Libyan. That's me. We were there chasing
0:14:49 > 0:14:52Gaddafi's fighters. There were vicious fights, it was scary
0:14:53 > 0:14:58sometimes. Many British Libyans took part in
0:14:59 > 0:15:04the fighting. Akram Ramadan, also from Manchester, says he met Abedi's
0:15:05 > 0:15:07father during the war. I made some enquiries to find out where the
0:15:08 > 0:15:13fighters are and whether front line is and was driven to a city where
0:15:14 > 0:15:17they said this is where the foreign fighters come. I went there to see
0:15:18 > 0:15:21if anybody I knew was there and one of the first people I met was
0:15:22 > 0:15:27Ramadan. I saw him bearing arms after Tripoli had been liberated,
0:15:28 > 0:15:33the last hotspot for Gaddafi's troops and his son was in their and
0:15:34 > 0:15:38there was fierce battles in that city.
0:15:39 > 0:15:44We'd all been fearless fighters, we all fought for life.
0:15:45 > 0:15:52The British government wanted Gaddafi gone as well. And did little
0:15:53 > 0:15:58to stop fighters travelling. But did they plan for their return? They
0:15:59 > 0:16:03know there is a lot of Libyan fighters there, they should have
0:16:04 > 0:16:05planned ahead and thought, if these kids are coming back, I think they
0:16:06 > 0:16:11need some psychological looking into.
0:16:12 > 0:16:20The fighting over, Gaddafi dead, Samantha Abedi return to Manchester.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25-- Salman Abedi. Libyan sources told us Salman Abedi return to fight
0:16:26 > 0:16:28again in 2014, this time with an Islamist militia called Omar Mukhtar
0:16:29 > 0:16:33Brigade. They say he was fighting alongside the son of a radical
0:16:34 > 0:16:41preacher who knew the father. Was this another important step on his
0:16:42 > 0:16:44path to murder? A year later, Abedi was studying for a degree in
0:16:45 > 0:16:49business and management at the University of Salford. Abedi had
0:16:50 > 0:16:54changed. He spoke that he regretted wasting
0:16:55 > 0:16:58time with his education, hanging out with the wrong crowd. He felt like
0:16:59 > 0:17:01he needed to re-establish or rekindle a relationship between
0:17:02 > 0:17:06himself and God. So he was praying more and trying to cut out smoking.
0:17:07 > 0:17:17He was trying to memorise whatever he could from the Koran. Nasser Ali
0:17:18 > 0:17:22became friends with his father, Ramadan, Manchester, but they fell
0:17:23 > 0:17:31out after the 2011 Libyan uprising, over comments Ramadan posted online.
0:17:32 > 0:17:40Ramadan had a Facebook page, using the name Yousef Hannaa. He expressed
0:17:41 > 0:17:47support for notorious al-Qaeda fighter and called for victory over
0:17:48 > 0:17:51nonbelievers. What he said in his book is unbelievable. It's just
0:17:52 > 0:17:57that, you know? You wrote it by himself, nobody forced him to write
0:17:58 > 0:18:03it, it's there. Also on the father's Facebook page, this photo of Salman
0:18:04 > 0:18:08Abedi's younger brother, Hashem. The caption, Hashem, the line in
0:18:09 > 0:18:14training. Salman's father, I would say he has jihadist view. It is
0:18:15 > 0:18:19clear if you see his book, it is clear what he has written in his
0:18:20 > 0:18:26book, very clear. I expect his kid will be similar, same, because if
0:18:27 > 0:18:31you see the father's values and opinions, it's normal, it's
0:18:32 > 0:18:36acceptable, it's not that impossible, you know? The sun would
0:18:37 > 0:18:40carry the same values, and then he would be like the father. After his
0:18:41 > 0:18:47son bombed the arena, Ramadan Abedi gave an interview in Libya. He
0:18:48 > 0:19:00denied he nor his son supported any militant groups.
0:19:01 > 0:19:08Two days after the arena attack, police raided this block of flats in
0:19:09 > 0:19:12North Manchester. It was believed to be Abedi's bomb factory. His
0:19:13 > 0:19:17landlord reportedly contacted police after seeing the bomber's name in
0:19:18 > 0:19:23the media. He said the flat stomach of chemicals. A neighbour told us
0:19:24 > 0:19:28they had lots of banging and the TV was on night. -- he said the flat
0:19:29 > 0:19:32was smelling of chemicals. The sophistication of the device, what
0:19:33 > 0:19:35we are hearing from the 30s is it is at a level where he would almost
0:19:36 > 0:19:42certainly have required help. As yet we don't know whether he himself
0:19:43 > 0:19:45created this device. Either way, a bomb of this level of sophistication
0:19:46 > 0:19:53would have taken a matter of at least weeks if not months to have
0:19:54 > 0:19:57prepared the explosive. Abedi lived here in Fallowfield, South
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Manchester. This footage is said to be of him putting out his bins. It's
0:20:01 > 0:20:05a neighbourhood with notorious connections. He is believed to have
0:20:06 > 0:20:12had contact with the number of Islamist extremists from this same
0:20:13 > 0:20:17area. They include Abd al-Baset Azzouz, the bomb maker accused of
0:20:18 > 0:20:20running an al-Qaeda network in Libya and Raphael Hostey, the recruiter
0:20:21 > 0:20:24for so-called Islamic State, believed to have been killed in
0:20:25 > 0:20:30Syria in 2016. The authorities have told us that
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Abedi new Raphael Hostey, the 20-year-old student, when he died a
0:20:36 > 0:20:39few years ago in Syria, fighting for Islamic State. Raphael Hostey is
0:20:40 > 0:20:49believed to have attended Didsbury as Abedi did.
0:20:50 > 0:20:58The family was very involved in Didsbury Mosque. The father, he used
0:20:59 > 0:21:05a call to prayer is there and the brother used to lead some of the
0:21:06 > 0:21:12prayers there as well. When I heard Didsbury Mosque was mentioned, and
0:21:13 > 0:21:19that's when my heart dropped. We are what we say, normal people, so we
0:21:20 > 0:21:24have never faced anything like this. Mr Haffar said he hadn't heard of
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Salman Abedi until last week. He faced the world's press to condemn
0:21:29 > 0:21:33the attack by a worshipper at the mosque.
0:21:34 > 0:21:40The horrific atrocity that occurred in Manchester on Monday night has
0:21:41 > 0:21:46shocked us all. It has indeed shocked us all.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Eventually, when we did find out that he attended this mosque we had
0:21:51 > 0:21:53to really ask some of our employees whether they remember him and some
0:21:54 > 0:22:00of them did say they remembered him. What I was told, and I quote, he was
0:22:01 > 0:22:06a loner. He would sometimes sit in a corner, going through his computer,
0:22:07 > 0:22:12reading some books. One of the mosques imams had some
0:22:13 > 0:22:17concerns about Abedi but did not report them to the police. So did
0:22:18 > 0:22:22they do enough? We have to learn a lot. I have to be truthful, we have
0:22:23 > 0:22:29to learn, we have to be more conscious, we have to have proper
0:22:30 > 0:22:42policies. We have to avoid mistakes. I think we have to ask our imams to
0:22:43 > 0:22:53be more proactive, to encourage the youth to move away from such evil,
0:22:54 > 0:22:58evil stories, evil people. But others did report Abedi to the
0:22:59 > 0:23:02authorities. A community worker said while Abedi with a college in his
0:23:03 > 0:23:07teens, teachers and pupils were so worried they called on anti-terror
0:23:08 > 0:23:10hotline a number of times. He'd been saying it was worth dying for a
0:23:11 > 0:23:15cause and that suicide bombing was OK.
0:23:16 > 0:23:23Those reports would have gone to the security services and Greater
0:23:24 > 0:23:28Manchester Police. Part of the challenge all the time that the
0:23:29 > 0:23:31police and MI5 face is you have a huge number of potential targets.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35They have to be rated against the threat that they are perceived
0:23:36 > 0:23:39against, and often there's difficult decisions to be made to say, if we
0:23:40 > 0:23:44are going to do this new operation, we have to stop doing this other
0:23:45 > 0:23:47one. That is the day-to-day conversation, literally every single
0:23:48 > 0:23:52day if not every single hour, that goes on in the counterterrorism
0:23:53 > 0:23:55network. MI5 says it will hold an inquiry into the way it dealt with
0:23:56 > 0:24:04enquiries from the public that Abedi was a potential threat.
0:24:05 > 0:24:11On the 17th of May, five days before the attack Manchester Arena, Salman
0:24:12 > 0:24:13Abedi left Libya for the last time and flew into the UK via Turkey and
0:24:14 > 0:24:37Germany. I think the one aspect of this case
0:24:38 > 0:24:42which probably would concern me is this whole issue about people being
0:24:43 > 0:24:46able to move between our country and war zones like Libya, and the fact
0:24:47 > 0:24:51that people travelling from places like Turkey and Libya are obviously
0:24:52 > 0:24:55at a crisscross in various hub airports to end up back in London or
0:24:56 > 0:24:56Manchester and what are the capabilities of our system to manage
0:24:57 > 0:25:07and control that. It's believed Abedi made his final
0:25:08 > 0:25:14preparations in this rented flat in the centre of Manchester.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Libyan authorities say the bomber called his mother on the night of
0:25:18 > 0:25:31the attack. The day after the bombing, his older
0:25:32 > 0:25:35brother Ismail was arrested in Manchester. His younger brother
0:25:36 > 0:25:40Hashem and his father Ramadan Abedi and held by Libyan authorities in
0:25:41 > 0:25:47Tripoli. 14 people are now in custody here in the UK, in
0:25:48 > 0:25:48connection with the attack. The huge operation to catch the suspected
0:25:49 > 0:26:06network behind the bomber continues. The targeting of young girls leaving
0:26:07 > 0:26:12a pop concert has deepened our anxieties. There's a call for
0:26:13 > 0:26:16greater scrutiny of counterterrorism efforts, and renewed concerns about
0:26:17 > 0:26:24community tensions. Feelings are running high at the
0:26:25 > 0:26:27moment, so in those situations, of course, there are increased
0:26:28 > 0:26:31tensions. But what I would say to people is, if you go down that path,
0:26:32 > 0:26:36you are playing the game that the terrorists wanted you to play,
0:26:37 > 0:26:36that's what they want. They want that clash between different
0:26:37 > 0:26:48communities. I felt slightly wary the following
0:26:49 > 0:26:52day that some people might be looking at me suspiciously, maybe
0:26:53 > 0:26:56that's just me being paranoid or whatever, but I fit the description
0:26:57 > 0:27:00in terms I'm male, Muslim and in my 20s. I'm a victim one night and then
0:27:01 > 0:27:06the following day, lots of people are looking at me as if I may
0:27:07 > 0:27:09suspect. -- as if I may suspect. The Muslim that works in your corner
0:27:10 > 0:27:14shop has nothing to do with what this guy carried out. He hates this
0:27:15 > 0:27:16attack just as much as you do and I hate this just as much as anyone out
0:27:17 > 0:27:31there does. You're worried about Daisy, yeah.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35She says when she closed her eyes the other night she said, I see
0:27:36 > 0:27:41things. And even though we try to deter her, we tried to tell her it
0:27:42 > 0:27:42was bins exploding, she has seen it and it was horrific. You wouldn't
0:27:43 > 0:27:54want anyone to see that, would you? I think that my colleagues did an
0:27:55 > 0:28:03absolutely amazing job. I just looked back, I feel proud to have,
0:28:04 > 0:28:14to have been any part of that. And proud have been... To... Just...
0:28:15 > 0:28:28Sorry. # And so Sally can wait
0:28:29 > 0:28:32# She knows it's too late # As she's walking on by...#
0:28:33 > 0:28:37The people of Manchester have shown even in their darkest hour they have
0:28:38 > 0:28:41found their voice and strength of character. This is a city that has
0:28:42 > 0:28:42come together in its grief and showed the spirit of its youth won't
0:28:43 > 0:28:46be broken.