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 protection measures in their electoral districts after the assassination of conservative deputy David Amess. 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.
The British Police have declared the murder of Conservative MP David Amess a terrorist attack, as reported by Deputy Police Commissioner Dean Haydon .
Amess was stabbed to death during a meeting with his voters in Essex County by a 25-year-old British man of Somali descent , who was arrested at the scene of the incident.
The detainee, whose name has not been released, “shares the same details” as an individual who appeared on the Prevent program dedicated to those who were “at risk of ideological radicalization.”
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 or confirmed, as anticipated by some British media. Everything indicates that he acted alone and did not have accomplices. MI5 joined the investigation of what was described as a “terrorist incident” .
Premier Boris Johnson and Labor opposition leader Keir Starmer came to Leigh-on-Sea together Saturday morning to lay flowers at the scene of the tragedy. They were accompanied by Interior Secretary Priti Patel, who made a few statements at the entrance of 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 Senior National Terrorism Police Oversight Coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Dean Haydon, has formally declared the incident terrorism. The initial investigation has revealed a possible motivation linked to Islamist extremism , ”the note said.
The investigation is being led by the Met’s Counter-Terrorism Command, which works in collaboration with colleagues from the Eastern Region Specialized Operations Unit (ERSOU) and Essex Police, the official note added.
“As part of the investigation, officers are conducting two-way searches in the London area,” according to police.
