Irish police announced on Saturday that they had arrested a 41-year-old man, who according to Irish media reportedly threatened a British MP with death a few days after the murder of Conservative MP David Amess.
The Douglas police, in the suburbs of Cork (southern Ireland), "searched this morning, Saturday November 6, 2021, a residential property," Irish police said.
"During the search, a number of electronic objects were seized and a 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of making threats against a person outside this jurisdiction" , he was clarified.
The man arrested Saturday morning in Douglas "is currently being held for questioning" at a station in Cork, Irish police said.
Three days after the death of MP David Amess
According to
The Irish Times
newspaper
, the man is "a British national" accused of "making death threats against a Labor MP" from his country.
"The police have been alerted by the British police," says the
Irish Times.
“The incident occurred after someone called the MP and threatened to kill her on October 18,” three days after David Amess died.
The 69-year-old Tory MP and father of five was stabbed to death on October 15 while talking to his constituents at a Methodist church in Leigh-on-Sea, about 37 miles east from London.
Her death shocked the UK, rekindling the trauma of the assassination of Labor MP Jo Cox in June 2016 by a right-wing extremist.
Ali Harbi Ali, 25, has been charged with the murder of David Amess, which police consider a terrorist act, and will stand trial in March.
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