Europe 1 with AFP 4:22 p.m., October 15, 2021
A British Conservative MP was stabbed several times on Friday during a parliamentary office he held in a church in his constituency in Leigh-on-Sea, east London.
According to local media, he is dead.
British Conservative MP David Amess, 69, was stabbed several times on Friday during a parliamentary duty he held at a church in his constituency in Leigh-on-Sea, east London. According to British media, the MP is dead. Local police announced the arrest of a man, without specifying his identity. She said she was not looking for "anyone else" after the arrest.
A witness named Anthony described on LBC radio a large police deployment there.
"I saw someone being taken out of the building, put in the back of a police car," he said.
"Apparently he has been stabbed several times," he added of the MP.
Political reactions immediately poured in, in a country marked by the assassination in the middle of the street in 2016 of MEP Jo Cox a week before the Brexit referendum by a neo-Nazi sympathizer.
"Horrible and deeply shocking news," tweeted Labor Opposition Leader Keir Starmer, addressing his thoughts to the MP, his relatives and associates.
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