• United Kingdom The 'taxi hero' who avoided more deaths in the Liverpool explosion

  • United Kingdom Three arrested for terrorism after the explosion of a car in Liverpool

An aura of mystery surrounds the author of the Liverpool explosion who died in the flames in a taxi outside the Maternity Hospital. Police suspect 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen of attempting to attack the hospital to cause casualties among women and children. The investigation has not yet ruled out that his target was the nearby Anglican cathedral, where he converted to Christianity and where more than a thousand soldiers were celebrating Armistice Day at the time.

Although he himself declared to his acquaintances that he was born in Iraq and raised in Syria,

the police believe that he may actually have been born in Jordan.

Everything indicates that he arrived in the United Kingdom in 2014: that same year he was

arrested with a knife

in his hand in the center of Liverpool and spent several months admitted to a hospital with mental problems.

The Department of the Interior denied his asylum request for seven years amid growing doubts about the veracity of his personal story.

Liverpool police meanwhile

released the four young men arrested

after the explosion for their alleged links to the suspect, who had a genuine explosives factory at his home on Rutland Avenue, without charge.

The homemade device that exploded minutes before eleven o'clock was more powerful than the police initially suspected. It had built-in metal bearings and could have caused a significant number of victims if it had not been for the feat of the taxi driver, David Perry, who apparently closed the car doors to prevent the passenger from leaving and miraculously escaped the explosion, seconds before that the car became a ball of fire.

Hailed as a national hero, David Perry was treated on the fly in hospital for

severe ear damage, minor burns and a fracture.

However, the taxi driver was released a few hours later and summoned his family to his mother's house. His wife Rachel, with whom he has two daughters, explained to the media that

her husband was "very upset and trying to understand what happened."

"He survived for a thousandth of a second," explained his uncle Michael Sultan. "When we saw him a few hours later he was still shaking and under the influence of adrenaline." The 'premier' Boris Johnson publicly praised his "courage" and the page opened in his name on GoFundMe had managed to raise

more than 60,000 euros

in donations

on Monday

to cover his recovery and the economic damages suffered. Perry works for Delta Taxis in Liverpool, inundated with calls of thanks from across the country.

Meanwhile, Malcolm and Elizabeth Hitchcott, a 77-year-old couple who sponsored Emad Al Swealmeen upon his arrival in Liverpool and upon his conversion to Christianity, expressed "horror" at the incident involving whom they described as "a kind man."

"It's impossible to believe,"

Malcolm Hitchcott told 'The Daily Mail'.

"We saw no indication that it might have been radicalized."

In fact, Emad Al Swealmeen had "westernized" his name and called himself Enzo Almeni, in homage to Enzo Ferrari.

He was a fanatic of car racing and a true "pizzaiolo", tanned in several restaurants and with the intention of starting his own "catering" company.

Malcolm and Elizabeth Hitchcott took Emad in temporarily in 2015 and witnessed his conversion to Christianity in Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral (the same one he is suspected of attempting to attack).

They lost contact with him a long time ago, although they happened to find themselves walking through the center of Liverpool in 2019, before the pandemic hit:

"He told us he was doing a pastry course, and he seemed very excited. We agreed to stay in touch. but we never heard from him again. "

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