United Kingdom The United Kingdom will review the security of the 650 MPs in each electoral district
United Kingdom British police describe the murder of MP David Amess as a "terrorist incident" linked to "Islamist extremism"
Ali Harbi Ali, the young assassin of Conservative MP David Amess, is the son of a former spokesman for the Government of Somalia, Harbi Ali Kullane, who thus received the news in statements to
The Sunday Times
: "
I am traumatized; it is something that I never expected that it could happen
. "
Scotland Yard thoroughly searched Ali Harbi Ali's family home
, in the North London neighborhood of Kentish Town, near the house where Labor leader Keir Starmer lives. Police suspect that the 25-year-old of Somali origin
spent at least a week tracking the steps
of parliamentarian Amess
before the event at the Leigh-on-Sea Methodist Church, where he got 17 fistfuls on Friday.
It is still unknown why the assassin chose precisely the 69-year-old veteran Conservative deputy, of Thatcherist tradition and supporter of Brexit. Several close friends have speculated
that it could be because of his Catholic beliefs
. Extremist preacher Anjem Choudary caused a furor on Saturday by hinting that Amess was likely chosen
because of his support for the state of Israel
.
Mosques in the South East of England have meanwhile issued a joint statement condemning "the indefensible atrocity" and stressing
how David Amess had been "a pillar of support for the Muslim community."
"We are facing a senseless act of violence with a really good man," said Ruhul Shamsuddin, secretary of the Jamme Masjid association in Essex.
The police and MI5 continue to question Ali Harbi Ali and try to reconstruct his record.
His sympathies for jihadism had set off alarms
and he had become in the radicalization prevention program (PREVEN). The police insist, however, that he had no terrorist record and
that he apparently acted alone and without accomplices
.
In Corydon, south London, where Ali spent much of his childhood, he is remembered as a tall, taciturn boy. She came to attend the Church of England religious church and apparently worked for the National Health System (NHS), following in the footsteps of a nurse sister.
Despite the tragedy,
dozens of deputies decided to go ahead with their plans
and hold the traditional meetings with their constituents over the weekend. Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Priti Patel confirmed plans to provide police surveillance to the 650 parliamentarians during their acts in their respective districts.
The Speaker of the House of Commons, Labor Lindsay Hoyle, defended for his part as
"essential" the face-to-face meeting of politicians with their voters
, although he defended the need to guarantee the protection of deputies and reminded the British: "Political disputes must be resolved at the polls, and not through threats, intimidation or murders. "
The security expenses of the deputies have risen from just 200,000 euros a year to more than five million.
After the murder of Jo Cox at the hands of a far-right militant in 2016, threats and abuses against MPs skyrocketed in a short time: from 115 cases reported in 2017 to 332 in 2018. A BBC poll revealed ago two years
that 60% of parliamentarians had filed complaints with the police for receiving threats
.
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