(ITV) The brother of a man accused of plotting to kill Jewish people at a mass gathering in Manchester has told a jury that he thought he was being “abducted or kidnapped” when police came to arrest him.
Bilel Saadaoui claimed six plain-clothes officers “attacked and dragged him” to the floor in a gym in front of his stepson, a trial at Preston Crown Court heard.
He claimed he was shocked and bewildered when he was told he was a suspected terrorist preparing an attack.
The jury was shown police bodycam footage of the arrest outside a gym. The defendant’s hands were tied behind his back with zip ties.
Saadaoui, 36, from Hindley, Wigan, told the court he was shocked and scared by the police’s actions inside the gym.
