Police face tough questions after it emerged that Butt, who was a British citizen and is being named as a ringleader behind the atrocity, had been investigated by officers in 2015 but had been “prioritised accordingly” after no intelligence to suggest he was planning an attack was discovered. Sky News reported on Monday that police had also found Molotov cocktails in the back of the attackers’ van.
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Italian media reported that officials suspected he was bound for Syria and that Italian authorities had alerted their British counterparts about his movements.
Police said they were working to identity the third attacker. Police killed all three attackers.
Work is still under way to identify the third man who was killed during the attack. He appeared in a 2016 television documentary called “The Jihadis Next Door”.
A British Transport Police officer also faced all three attackers with only his baton.
Metropolitan Police said in a statement that Thomas was in town for the weekend with his girlfriend.
Thomas’ girlfriend was seriously injured after being hit by the attackers’ van. “I could see them from my window”.
“I got people to start evacuating inside from our little garden that we have. and got people to come into the bar and to go into toilets, hide under tables and hide in our cellar where we keep all our stock”, he said. Leader of the main opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, called on for the prime minister to resign over cuts. So we need to become far more robust at identifying it and stamping it out [.] That will require some hard and often embarrassing conversations.
“It is time to say enough is enough”, she said.
Counter-terror police yesterday carried out armed raids in east London in a race to identify associates of the terror gang behind the London Bridge atrocity.
Prime Minister Theresa May says that the attacks on Westminster Bridge, Manchester Arena, and now London Bridge were not connected through any known network but did attribute the attack to the “evil ideology of Islamist extremism”. Butt was born in Pakistan but his family moved to the capital in 1988, when he was a toddler. “Five or six big trucks were parked outside the restaurant late last night when the raid took place”. It claimed it was told that Butt “was already known to intelligence”. This revelation will increase the pressure on United Kingdom authorities – already under fire after it emerged that another attacker, Khuram Shazad Butt, was investigated by counterterrorism police as recently as 2015.
But he appeared in a Channel 4 documentary entitled “The Jihadis Next Door” about British extremists that was broadcast previous year, according to local media.
Both lived in the east of London.
The sister of a missing 32-year-old man said Monday her brother is believed to have died in the attack.
IS claimed responsibility for Saturday night’s attack, the terrorist group’s agency Amaq said on Sunday.
Although there has been widespread praise for the professionalism and courage of the armed officers who shot and killed the assailants within eight minutes of being called Saturday night, the country’s broader antiterrorism strategy was questioned. There’s an election on now, there’s a choice for everybody.
Over the past two years, Italy has expelled 181 people who were suspected of extremist activities but for whom there was insufficient evidence to bring formal charges.
The raids came the day after police arrested 12 people in Barking in connection with the rampage.
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The 30-year-old was held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorist acts during a search of a property in Ilford and taken for questioning at a south London police station, Scotland Yard said.
