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A LABOUR party parliamentary candidate has sparked outrage after he took a selfie at the site of the Tunisia massacre.
Amran Hussain, who stood for the safe Conservative seat of North East Hampshire in last month’s election, was spotted holding a so-called ‘selfie stick’ to take a photo of himself in front of floral tributes on the beach in Sousse.
Just two days earlier, on the same spot, Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 holidaymakers – at least 30 of whom were British.
Mr Hussain, who works as a national delivery officer for the NHS and serves as an Army reservist, said he was there to pay his respects and argued that selfies were not banned.
The 29-year-old told Mail Online: “Selfies are not banned. I don’t see anything wrong with it.
“We were not capturing a happy moment, we were very distressed after what happened and we went down to the beach for 30 minutes to show solidarity. “We laid flowers and wrote a tribute and prayed to those who lost their lives in the horrific massacre.
“We would have asked someone else to take a picture of us, but we were in the moment and we wanted to take a picture with the tribute and flowers we had put down.
“It has been taken completely out of context. It was all very upsetting and we just wanted to have a reminder of what happened.
“I just happened to be using a selfie stick as that is what I always use.”
Mr Hussain, who has previously been pictured with former Labour leader Ed Miliband, was on holiday with four friends who were also in the self-taken photo.
Now back in the UK, Mr Hussain wrote on his Facebook page: “We left Tunisia with a very heavy heart, but we will not allow terror to dictate our lives. Tunisia is a beautiful place with kind and peaceful people.
‘We went out onto our hotel beach today and paid our respects to those who lost their lives.
“My thoughts shall remain for years with all those lives that were lost there, and also for the millions of struggling Tunisian families whose household income would be affected due to the negative effect on their tourism industry.
“This is what the terrorists wanted and we must not give in I shall of course return back to Tunisia.”
A LABOUR party parliamentary candidate has sparked outrage after he took a selfie at the site of the Tunisia massacre.
Amran Hussain, who stood for the safe Conservative seat of North East Hampshire in last month’s election, was spotted holding a so-called ‘selfie stick’ to take a photo of himself in front of floral tributes on the beach in Sousse.
Just two days earlier, on the same spot, Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 holidaymakers – at least 30 of whom were British.
Mr Hussain, who works as a national delivery officer for the NHS and serves as an Army reservist, said he was there to pay his respects and argued that selfies were not banned.
The 29-year-old told Mail Online: “Selfies are not banned. I don’t see anything wrong with it.
“We were not capturing a happy moment, we were very distressed after what happened and we went down to the beach for 30 minutes to show solidarity. “We laid flowers and wrote a tribute and prayed to those who lost their lives in the horrific massacre.
“We would have asked someone else to take a picture of us, but we were in the moment and we wanted to take a picture with the tribute and flowers we had put down.
“It has been taken completely out of context. It was all very upsetting and we just wanted to have a reminder of what happened.
“I just happened to be using a selfie stick as that is what I always use.”
Mr Hussain, who has previously been pictured with former Labour leader Ed Miliband, was on holiday with four friends who were also in the self-taken photo.
Now back in the UK, Mr Hussain wrote on his Facebook page: “We left Tunisia with a very heavy heart, but we will not allow terror to dictate our lives. Tunisia is a beautiful place with kind and peaceful people.
‘We went out onto our hotel beach today and paid our respects to those who lost their lives.
“My thoughts shall remain for years with all those lives that were lost there, and also for the millions of struggling Tunisian families whose household income would be affected due to the negative effect on their tourism industry.
“This is what the terrorists wanted and we must not give in I shall of course return back to Tunisia.”
