Badreddin Abdalla Adam Bosh Inquiry

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Badreddin Abdalla Adam Bosh Inquiry  Refugees for Justice's Siraj Balubaid alongside solicitor Aamer Anwar speaking outside Glasgow Sheriff Court, where a preliminary hearing for Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of Badreddin Abdalla Adam Bosh, who was shot and killed by police after he attacked six people, stabbing and seriously injuring five of them at Park Inn Hotel in 2020, was being held.

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00:00Say it loud and say it clear. Justice for Bedrandin.

00:03Say it loud and say it clear. Justice for Bedrandin.

00:07What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now.

00:11Good morning, my name is Ahmad Anwar. I'm a solicitor

00:14acting on behalf of the family of the deceased Abdullah Adam Bosch.

00:18This morning we appeared at the preliminary hearing fatal accident

00:20inquiry. Mr Bosch was a 28 year old asylum

00:23seeker from Sudan who was placed in the Park Inn hotel in

00:272020 during the height of the pandemic. On the 26th of June 2020 Mr

00:32Bosch was shot dead by Police Scotland's

00:34firearms officers after he stabbed three asylum seekers,

00:38two hotel workers and a police officer who had responded to the initial

00:42emergency call. Adam Bosch had applied to voluntarily

00:45return to Sudan but the process was delayed by the pandemic.

00:49Mr Bosch had been staying in the hotel for three months and at the time of the

00:52incident had been ill with Covid-19 and it was clear to those around him

00:56his mental health was rapidly declining. Previously some of those injured by Mr

01:00Bosch had said they did not blame him because of the decline in his mental

01:04health but they had raised serious allegations about the failings by the

01:07Home Office and others. A leaked Home Office document reported in

01:11the media claimed that Mr Bosch had made 72 calls

01:15seeking help from the Home Office and others. The Home Office and the Mayor's

01:18group at the time was heavily criticised for uprooting hundreds of refugees and

01:22asylum seekers and moving them into hotels emptied

01:26because of the lockdown. Those advocating on behalf of asylum

01:30seekers and refugees complained that hundreds of vulnerable and

01:33frightened people were being forced into hotels and cramped spaces

01:37when social distance was being advised by the government.

01:40Questions were raised at the time as to whether there was adequate

01:43medical and psychiatric support for those in the hotel.

01:48Mr Bosch's family have already raised concerns as to whether lethal force was

01:52necessary. A fatal accident inquiry will take place

01:55due to the nature and the circumstances of the death which gives rise to serious

01:59public concerns. It is important to note a fatal accident inquiry cannot apportion

02:04blame. It will establish the circumstances of

02:07Mr Bosch's death and consider what reasonable steps if any

02:10could have been taken to avoid the risk of future deaths in similar

02:14circumstances. The evidence will be tested in a public

02:17setting and will be the subject of an independent judicial

02:20determination by Sheriff Principal Anwar and a further

02:24preliminary hearing is set for the 23rd of June.

02:26We have been searching for answers since the tragedy on the Barking from 2020

02:31and the people who have moved into the hotels during the pandemic

02:35for we are trying to seek the justice for the situations and what happened

02:38that time. Unfortunately the hotels have been used

02:41now widely across the country for people who are seeking asylum seekers.

02:46We gather here for the fatal incident inquiry

02:49into the death of Badreddin Bosch who was being shot dead by the police

02:54and we are showing solidarity for the victims or all the people across the

02:57country who have been in the hotel detention or hotel accommodation across

03:00the country and we are looking for the lead into the

03:03situation or what led to that situation and ended that way.

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