"Abdullah Albadri, 34, had only arrived in the UK in a small boat from France 16 days before the attempted attack on 28 April 2025. He was arrested trying to scale the railings of the heavily-guarded embassy, and asked the armed diplomatic protection officers who detained him, 'Why are you stopping me from making crimes?'"
"During his trial, Albadri said that he was from the stateless Bedoon tribe and had been born in Kuwait. His police officer father had paid for his schooling but he could not access higher education because of his ethnicity, so he became an activist."
"After his arrest, he told officers, 'I want to do something to stop the war,' and also said he wanted to stop a war on children. His motivation seems to have been Israel's war in Gaza."
Abdullah Albadri, a 34-year-old man who arrived in the UK from France, was found guilty of preparing a terror-related knife attack on the Israeli embassy. He attempted to scale the embassy's railings while carrying two knives. Albadri expressed his desire to stop the war in Gaza and claimed he chose the path of martyrdom. His background includes being from the stateless Bedoon tribe in Kuwait, where he faced educational barriers and imprisonment. He had previously entered the UK illegally by small boat twice in four years.
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