A woman identified as Fatima Hadfi late yesterday called Maghreb TV, a Belgian network with wide viewership among the country's Moroccan community. On-air, she said she had no idea her son, Bilal, was radicalised until he called from Syria instead of from Morocco where had told her he was going to vacation.
She said Islamic extremists took advantage of her 20-year- old son after he grew disaffected by discrimination in Belgium.