An Indonesian bomb maker convicted for his role in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks has apologized to the families of the victims, following an outcry over his release from prison in Australia.
Omar Patek, a member of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group, was jailed for 20 years in 2012 after he was found guilty of building bombs at two nightclubs in Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesians. People were killed. He was released on parole last week.
“I apologize to the victims and their families both at home and abroad, whatever their country, whatever their ethnicity, whatever their religion,” Patek said in an interview at a deradicalization center in East Java province on Tuesday. “