Manchester United Win Europa League on Emotional Night
QUEST: Good Evening, I'm Richard Quest outside Westminster the houses of Parliament in London. Allow me to update you of the latest developments, Greater Manchester Police have now arrested six people in connection with Monday's attack. A woman was arrested in the suburb of Blakely not long ago. British counterterrorism officials are telling CNN that the bomb maker in the Manchester attack may still be at large. An official still do not know who made that bomb. A Libyan militia says that the bomber's brother has been arrested in Tripoli while planning a terror attack, Hashem al Abedi confessed under interrogation that both he and his brother Salman were members of ISIS. CNN has not been able to independently verify those claims. Now for Atika Shubert who is in Blakely for us this evening. This latest development, and obviously, I am aware of the various reporting restrictions at this stage, but what do we know about any of these people arrested?</s>ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: All we know at this point is that there are six people in total and they are in some way linked to the attacker, we believe that one of them, for example, is a relative of the attacker arrested yesterday. We know another arrest happened in Wigan, and we know the latest arrest happen here in the building behind me. A few hours ago, residence here heard an explosion and they came outside and they saw heavily armed police moving into that building. Now two eyewitnesses inside tell us they saw a woman being arrested and that two apartments inside were searched. Now what exactly they were looking for we do not know yet but it is all part of this expanding investigation, is clear now from the chief constable that this is not just focused on the attacker but on a network behind him. And as you pointed out, what is key is trying to figure out whether or not there was a bomb maker who gave him that bomb and then of course, finding out who that person is.</s>QUEST: But, Atika, one of the points that Juliett Kayem was saying earlier, Pauline Neville Jones who was saying earlier, is that now that Abedi's name is in the public domain there is this greater urgency, obviously, there is always an urgency for the police in Manchester, if you like, to round up the suspects.</s>SHUBERT: Exactly, and this is why initially UK authorities were reluctant to give out much information, they try and keep that information to themselves so they can round up and reel in as many suspects or suspected links as they can. The name is out there, Salman Abedi, we know for example his brother's flat was searched yesterday, that his younger brother has also been arrested in Tripoli, although we cannot verify the claims that he was supposedly planning for another attack there. But this is all part of the work of investigators to try and retrace the steps, figure out what is going on. Perhaps, it is most concerned that we know that Salman was in Libya just a few weeks ago and apparently came back to the UK just a few days ago, now what was he doing in that time, where did he go? This is what police are looking at, they have searched this location but also a city center location, it may be that they are retracing his steps.</s>QUEST: And the idea that because the Prime Minister and indeed the Home Secretary both have alluded to the fact that Abedi was known to the authorities, but we don't the circumstances under which he was known. For example, petty crime, major crime, terrorist activities, radicalism, we don't know do we?</s>SHUBERT: No, we have had a few hints for example, it didn't seem that he was a known terror suspect, however he might have been on the fringes perhaps a recruitment network. We also know from speaking to family friends at the father for example, was very concerned about gang violence affecting his sons. And we have also heard is that a number of Libyan youth are particularly vulnerable because they feel left behind, not just by British society but Libyan society as well. Some of them have tried to go back after the revolution and simply were not able to fit in, came back here and got into trouble, whether it was drugs, crime or as it seems, becoming increasingly vulnerable to terror recruiters.</s>QUEST: Atika Shubert who is in northern England just outside Manchester tonight. Now among all the talk of terror and grief Manchester has a small reason, it is minor in the great scheme of things, live pictures from fans watching in Manchester, watching a major match, it was Paul Pogba who got the first goal for United. He pointed to the heavens and celebration after scoring. The Manchester players wearing black armbands to honor the victims of Monday's attack. Now the team will return to Manchester with a trophy. It is no consolation at all in the sense of what happened. World sports Alex Thomas is at the match in Stockholm and joins me now, so, Alex, the match is virtually over, how was this extremely difficult issue handled in a way that was dignified, respectful but showed that we weren't going to let terrorist determine how we live our lives?</s>ALEX THOMAS, CNN WORLD SPORT CORRESPONDENT: It was a huge headache for football authorities, you may remember a few weeks ago, the Champions League which is an even bigger European club football competition than this, the Europa League, when Borussia Dortmund's coach was attacked and there was a small bomb blast, there were no fatalities, there were injuries. And Dortmund was forced to carry on playing that event as normal. No question that this Europa League final was ever going to be postponed because of the Manchester attack on Monday. But they did cancel their pre-match news conference which is normally mandatory, just a short statement Jose Mourinho, charismatic but controversial coach, by twitter on the eve of the game. And a real sense of a feeling that the team had to win it in tribute to the memories, especially, those young children killed on Monday night in Manchester. A huge burden for the players to bear, especially, when you consider --</s>QUEST: Let we just jump, let me just jump in there, Alex, let me just jump in, forgive me, we are looking at pictures from Manchester of fans celebrating this win, and I mean I don't see the two as being in contradiction here. Do you? It is right that in Manchester they celebrate whilst they mourn because anything else means that the terrorists win. Describe that circle for me.</s>THOMAS: We've seen a huge show of solidarity for the people of Manchester over the last 48 hours, haven't we, Richard. In a huge sense of pride in the city from the people that live there. And one of the things that Manchester people are so proud about is one of their two huge football clubs, Manchester United which seems just when the Europa League final behind me, and Manchester City, the red half and the blue half of the city, who for once have really come together in grief and solidarity. But football is all about getting back to your primeval instincts, it is standing there on the terraces next to your neighbors and screaming for the team that you love. And we all know the different phases of grief, many of fans that I have spoken to on the plane over here and in the city center earlier today, or desperate just to have a release of all that anguish if you like. And they did noisily supporting their team, the atmosphere in there the same as any other major football final, that doesn't mean the people didn't care, of course, they did but as you say, life has to go on. And I think it will be some sort of boon for the city although as you say can go nowhere to repairing the damage emotionally and otherwise that that city has suffered over the course of the last few days.</s>QUEST: Alex Thomas, who is in Stockholm for us this evening, thank you, and in many ways it is reassuring to see those pictures of celebrations. We will go to a brick showing you those pictures of fans celebrating to remind us all that life goes on after these atrocities because if we don't then the terrorists have won. This is not a sign of disrespect, far from it, it is a sign to show that they haven't won.