(ANSA) – LONDON, JUL 12 – He entered the United Kingdom illegally with false identity and documents, forced to work as a servant when he was only 9 years old: shocking interview with multi-Olympian Mo Farah who, for the first time, told his true story history. In an interview with the BBC, the gold medalist of 5 and 10 thousand at the London Games in 2012 revealed that he arrived on the island from Djibouti, and not – as claimed so far – from Somalia. And again: not in the company of his parents as refugees, but accompanied by a woman he had never seen before, with a document in the name of Mohamed Farah, and not with his real name, Hussein Abdi Kahin. “I know I’ve taken someone else’s place, I often wonder what happened to the real Mohamed.”
Contrary to what has always been said, his parents never lived in the UK: his father Abdi died during the Somali civil war when the athlete was only four years old; the mother and her two brothers still live on the family farm in Somalia. “As soon as we arrived in the UK, the lady, who was supposed to be taking me to my relatives already residing in the UK, snatched my papers from my hand. I knew I was in trouble. From then on I had to clean up. house and take care of the children, if I wanted to find something to eat on my plate. “
Only at the age of 12 Mo, when he still didn’t speak English, did he finally start going to school: “But I was completely marginalized. It saved my race. The difference between me and all the people who have traveled the same path as me is was that at least I could run fast “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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