LONDON: A man wanted in Germany over an alleged antisemitic plot and who is reportedly an ex-Hamas bodyguard was convicted by a UK court Friday of a knife attack on a bailiff.
Mohammed Alfatih, 40, also known as Mohammed Naim, was found guilty by a jury in Birmingham, central England, of a violent knife attack in October 2025 outside his UK home in a dispute over his wife’s unpaid parking fines.
According to reports in multiple UK media outlets, Alfatih was a bodyguard for Hamas’s leadership and the son of a senior official of the Palestinian militant group, before being granted asylum in the UK followed by British citizenship in 2020.
He is also wanted in Germany over an alleged plot against the Jewish community there and is set to face extradition proceedings at a London court.
On Friday, he was convicted of two counts of unlawful possession of a knife and wounding an enforcement officer who was checking on a debt of over £2,250 ($3,000) in unpaid parking fines racked up by Alfatih’s wife.
Footage played during the trial showed Alfatih brandishing a knife at the broken window of a van, leaving bailiff Kevin Bucknall with a cut to the back of his head.
The jury at Birmingham Crown Court was not told of the defendant’s links to Hamas…
