Moscow airport terrorist father called his son "zombie"
Moscow airport terrorist's father said his son would never have done this unless he was hypnotised, Kazakhstan Today reports.
Almaty. February 14. Kazakhstan Today - Moscow airport terrorist's father said his son would never have done this unless he was hypnotised, Kazakhstan Today reports.
Mukhajir Yevloyev struggles to explain where it all went wrong. Now a pensioner, the former bus driver raised four children with his second wife Roza and had hoped that they would all have the quiet life that he had enjoyed for the last 73 years, The Telegraph reported.
It is true that Mr Yevloyev had recently had cause to worry about his eldest son, 20-year-old Magomed.
The boy had been expelled from a local college for under achievement and had then struggled to find a job. He had also separated from his young wife and, towards the end of last year, had gone off in an apparent huff to earn some extra money at a building site in a nearby region.
But these were things that could be fixed, he thought.
When FSB secret service agents burst into Mr Yevloyev's modest red brick house and showed him a photograph of a severed head two weeks ago, the quietly-spoken patriarch knew that his world had changed for ever.
The agents told him the distorted face staring back at him was that of the suicide bomber who had just killed 36 people at Moscow's busiest airport. Look closely, they said, and you will recognise Magomed, your eldest son.
"He would never have done something like this unless he was hypnotised," he reasoned, calling Magomed "a perfectly normal boy in his youth." "He wanted to get rich, and he wanted children and a family. The (Islamist) terrorists turned him into a zombie. They used him."
Mr Yevloyev said he believed a claim made by the Russian security services that large amounts of psychotropic substances were found in what was left of Magomed's body. Someone, he believes, stole his son's humanity by taking control of his mind.
"It was not a human being who did this," he added. "It is shameful. Allah says one should never kill."
On 24 January, he walked into Moscow's busy Domodedovo airport and blew himself up in the arrivals hall.
Before detonating his suicide vest, he apparently screamed: "I will kill you all!"
It was the deadliest attack on an airport anywhere in the world to date.
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