Ex-Hamas bodyguard wanted in Germany convicted in UK over knife attack

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.