The assailant, 29, was armed with a stun gun and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder last weekend on Saturday in the suburb of Leytonstone, London’s Metropolitan Police said.
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Labour’s London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan tweeted a photo of a London Tube notice boards, reading: “London Underground say: #YouAintNoMuslimBruv” -a sentence that became popular on social media after a witness was heard shouting it against Mire.
Cellphone video has emerged of British police tasering a man who allegedly stabbed two people in a London subway station.
Mire was driven to court in a police van escorted by other vehicles which went into the court building through a back entrance and appeared at the Old Bailey wearing a light grey T-shirt and tracksuit pants.
Both victims were treated for non-life threatening injuries. The claim could not be independently verified, but the incident comes just days after Parliament approved British airstrikes on Islamic State group targets in Syria.
Pantucci also said the speed with which police had labelled the attack a terrorist incident made it likely the attacker had linked his actions to Syria.
“Some of us have dedicated speeches and media appearances and soundbites and everything on this subject, but “You ain’t no Muslim bruv” said it all much better than I ever could”.
Police tasered the suspect twice before he dropped the knife and was overpowered by police.
It is alleged Mire punched the man to the ground and repeatedly kicked him before taking hold of his head and inflicting a 12cm (five inch) wound in his neck.
According to Detective Superintendent Jacqueline Sebire, the attack “highlights the risks taken by our officers on a daily basis”.
Walton appealed for more witnesses to contact the police, urging the public to “remain calm, but alert and vigilant”. “You ain’t no Muslim”.
The terror suspect accused of slashing a man with a knife on the London Underground was reported to police by his own family three weeks before the incident, it has been reported.
Some Twitter users quoted Islamic scripture to contradict militant Islamists who try to use Islam to justify attacks on unarmed civilians and to recruit followers in the West and Middle East.
This is the first terrorist attack on British soil since the murder of fusilier Lee Rigby in May, 2013.
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Many Londoners have been on edge since the Paris carnage, which killed 130 people – and Prime Minister David Cameron said a similar attack “could happen here”.
