• United Kingdom British police describe the murder of MP David Amess as a "terrorist incident" linked to "Islamist extremism"

  • Crime Four stabbings in the back for no reason in 15 hours in London

British police link the murder of Conservative MP David Amess to Islamic terrorism.

This was acknowledged this Saturday by Dean Haydon, deputy commissioner of the Scotland Yard counterterrorism unit, who assured that the first indications of the investigation reveal "a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism."

A 25-year-old British man of Somali origin was arrested with the knife still in his hand

, after stabbing the 69-year-old veteran parliamentarian more than 12 times during an election event at the Methodist church in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town. coastal town 70 kilometers east of London.

The police have not revealed his identity at the moment

nor have they confirmed, as some British media anticipated, if the watch list for alleged radicalization came to be.

Everything indicates that he acted alone and did not have accomplices

. The agents inspected at least two addresses in which he has come to reside in London in search of evidence. MI5 joined the investigation of what was described as a "terrorist incident".

The

premier

Boris Johnson and the leader of the Labor opposition Keir Starmer came together on Saturday morning at Leigh-on-Sea, to lay flowers at the site where the tragedy occurred. They were accompanied by Interior Secretary Priti Patel, who made brief statements at the entrance to the local police station: "We live in an open and democratic society, and we cannot allow ourselves to be intimidated by an individual or a motivation." "David Amess was a man of the people,

killed doing the job he loved

and while serving his constituents in his district," Patel added. "Acts like this are absolutely wrong, but we cannot allow them to interfere with the functioning of democracy."

The Department of the Interior and the House of Commons

have ordered a thorough review of the security system of the 650 deputies

and a reinforcement of the protection measures in their electoral districts.

The 2016 assassination of Labor party Jo Cox, at the hands of far-right militant Thomas Mair, also occurred at the exit of an electoral event in his district of Batley and Spen.

Still recent in the memory of MPs, the Westminster Bridge bombing in March 2017, when a 52-year-old man (Khalid Masood) killed four people and

ran over 50 others with a car before entering the perimeter of Parliament.

and stab a policeman.

"No parliamentarian is safe," said commentator and former Conservative minister David Mellor, a personal friend of Amess, who he defined as "a charming man" and "a strong Thatcherist who for 38 years sat in the seats of the

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