Father of truck driver who committed atrocity said he was violent as a boy but showed no jihadi tendencies Outside the family home, a two-story, whitewashed compound in the Tunisian town of M'saken, Mouthir Bouhlel was at a loss to understand how his son could have taken such a wrong turn. As a boy, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had been troubled and often violent. His father remembered him as "always alone, always depressed". But he insisted the teenager had shown no jihadi tendencies, only self-de...
Father of truck driver who committed atrocity said he was violent as a boy but showed no jihadi tendencies Outside the family home, a two-story, whitewashed compound in the Tunisian town of M'saken, Mouthir Bouhlel was at a loss to understand how his son could have taken such a wrong turn. As a boy, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had been troubled and often violent. His father remembered him as "always alone, always depressed". But he insisted the teenager had shown no jihadi tendencies, only self-de...
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