"It’s a part of yourself that leaves" : Farid Khider looks back on the brutal death of his brother, killed by bullets

Like every week, from Monday to Friday, Jordan De Luxe received At Jordan’s a guest to talk with him about his current affairs, but also about his personal life. This Monday, October 2, he spoke with Farid Khider, eight-time world boxing champion who began this exchange by talking about his childhood which he described as “stunning“He is the eldest of six children. His father was a forklift driver and his mother looked after the children. “We were content with what we had because we didn’t know what was out there. It was modest, but it was magnificent. We were brothers, sisters. It was a real family life, everyone was going through the same thing“, he confided. How was his notoriety experienced within his family? “Like a source of pride (…) I started boxing very young and afterwards, when I started winning titles (…) My father was a little more worried (…) We take risks every time we step into a ring“, he replied

Farid Khider: his brother shot dead after a neighborhood fight, he looks back on this terrible ordeal

In this same interview, Farid Khider agreed to return to the sudden death of his brother, shot and killed”following a fight that went wrong“, he indicated. The boxing champion had come there to defend him. “It was a little too late“, he recalled before going into more detail about what happened that day. “It was a fight between young people from the neighborhood who got confused, then one of them took a pistol, I don’t remember what weapon it was. It fired, he was hit. He had an internal hemorrhage, poor guy and then it stopped there.“, he said. And continued on what he felt: “We were very family, very united, very united, it’s a part of us that leaves. Then the departure of a friend, a loved one, it always hurts and even worse when it’s a brother“.

“We can’t forgive, we will never forgive“

Jordan De Luxe asked him if he wanted to take justice into his own hands. “We always have ideas running through our heads, but I think we have to let justice do its job. We reason with each other. I think we don’t rebuild a family, we learn to live with the pain“, replied Farid Khider. As for forgiveness, it was impossible for him to take this step, even today. “We can’t forgive, we will never forgive. We live with it and we have to let things happen. I think it’s time that heals, there’s only time“, he concluded.