British police have arrested a man suspected of entering Westminster Parliament in London today.
“A man has been arrested and taken into custody at the Gateway Gate,” one of the gates of the building, “who is suspected of breaking into a protected area,” London police said in a statement. considered “terrorist” in nature.
The incident unfolded after two attacks, which were considered terrorist by the police: the explosion, in mid-November, of a taxi in Liverpool (north), in which the perpetrator was killed and the death of MP David Aymes, who lost his life after a knife attack in October.
The level of the terrorist threat has increased to “serious”, after the attack in Liverpool.
The incident took place today in the same area where, in 2017, a police officer was stabbed by a 52-year-old British man who had converted to Islam and was known to the police, after he fell on passers-by with his vehicle on the Westminster bridge.
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