According to the BBC local time reported on the 12th, recently, 39-year-old British male long-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah revealed in the documentary "The Real Mo Farah" that he was illegally trafficked to the UK when he was a child, and had to be a domestic servant for a long time in order to eat. And the name Farah was given to him by the strange woman who brought him from Djibouti, East Africa, to England.
In previous interviews, asked about parental status, Farah had said the parents had come to Britain from Somalia as refugees. But in the documentary, he overturns these claims and admits that his father died as early as he was four years old, while his mother is in Somaliland, and the two never came to Britain.
According to public information, Farah was born in Somalia and is now a British long-distance runner, who won the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters in athletics at the 2012 London Olympics, and in 2016, won the title of The Best Male Track and Field Athlete in Europe.
In the documentary "The Real Mo Farah", he introduced that his original name was Hussein Abdi Kahin, his father Abdi died in the Somali civil war when he was 4 years old, and for safety, his mother sent him and his twin brother to an uncle's house in Djibouti, and the small family became fragmented, and during his time in Djibouti, a woman who had never met or had no relationship came to see him several times and had been observing him. Some time later, the woman told Farah to take him to Europe to live with a relative.
Farah revealed that he was excited at first because he had never been on a plane before that. Before being taken to England, he was told that his name would be Mohammed, and on the fake passport, the name column did read: Mohammed Farah.
When they arrived in England, the strange woman placed him in an apartment in Hounslow, west London, and his face changed in an instant. She took the contact information of the relatives he had written on him and tore it off in front of his face, "Right in front of me, she tore it off and threw it in the trash, and at that time, I knew I was in trouble." The other party also threatened him, "If you want to eat, you must do housework, take care of other children in the family, if you want to see the family again, it is best not to say anything." ”
At first, he was not allowed to attend school until he was 12 years old, when he was admitted to a community school in Feltham, London. School staff were told that Farah was a refugee from Somalia. One teacher recalled that Farah was very sloppy when he first came to school, didn't seem to be well cared for, didn't speak much English, and was a bit emotionally and culturally distant. And people who claim to be his parents have never attended a parent-teacher conference.
Pedis teacher Alan Watkinson noticed Farah's expertise in sports and, after hearing Farah's story, contacted social services to help him escape from his unfamiliar home.
"From that moment on, it all got better together", Farah began to receive attention as an athlete, at the age of 14, he was invited to latvia to compete, but at the time he did not have a passport, Watkinson helped him apply for British citizenship under the name Mohammed Farah, and after a long wait, in July 2000, he officially became a British citizen.
In the documentary, Farah confessed that he was worried about his immigration status. Lawyer Alan Braddock also said Farah's citizenship was strictly obtained through fraud or misrepresentation and that the government had the right to revoke his citizenship, but he also said that in this case, the risk of "fraud" or others was low.
On the evening of the 11th local time, the spokesman of the British Home Office said that no action would be taken against Farah.
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