The suspect of, was in a situation of bail, after having been investigated last year for an alleged violation, the police reported.
Jihad al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian origin, was shot dead by the agents who went to the synagogue. Two of the people who attended the celebration of Yom Kipur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, died during the attack. Four others suffered consideration wounds and were hospitalized.
Police believe that Al-Shamie “could be influenced by an extremist Islamist ideology”, although they have asked for time to analyze in detail all the circumstances that have surrounded this incident, which has shocked the Jewish community of the United Kingdom and, meeting centers and neighborhoods where this population is concentrated.
In the first checks of the investigation, the authorities have indicated that the suspect was not registered in any prevention list of the anti -terrorism department, and its name was never included in the early detection system of radicalized persons called Prevent.
The authorities have not yet determined whether Al-Shamie was a lone wolf who decided on his own to perform the terrorist attack or if he is part of some type of network. In the hours after the attack, the police arrested in the area near the synagogue two men in his 30 years and a woman of about 60, “as suspected of committing, preparing and instigating acts of terrorism.” On Friday night a man and two women were arrested, aged between 18 and 40 years, also allegedly linked to what happened in the synagogue.
The researchers work on the basis that Al-Shamie chose the date of Yom Kipur to carry out the attack. His father, Faraj al-Shamie, has expressed his “deep shock” for what happened and has condemned it through the social network Facebook: “The Al-Shamie family in the United Kingdom and abroad condemns this atrocious act against peaceful and innocent civilians. We completely disconnect from this attack and express our deep shock and sadness for what happened,” he said.
Shortly after this statement, several British media have revealed that the father, who has worked as a traumatologist for various humanitarian organizations in conflict areas such as Sudan from the South, Afghanistan or Mali, also celebrated on Facebook the attacks of Hamas to Israel on October 7, 2023, and assured that they had been perpetrated by “men of God on earth” and that they were “a miracle”.
. Another of the injured was also accidentally reached by the bullets of the security forces. “The suspicious suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, was not in possession of such a weapon, and the only shots came from the agents, trying to prevent the aggressor from entering the synagogue and caused major damage to the Jewish community,” said Chief Commissioner Stephen Watson.
Starmer demands respect for Jewish duel
The British prime minister has claimed this Saturday, through the social network X, that “the duel of the British Jews is respected.” His message was aimed at the organizers of two proper manifestations provided for in London and Manchester. “This is a moment of mourning, not to feed the tensions and cause more pain. It is a time to stay together,” Starmer written.
The London Metropolitan Police claimed Friday through a letter to the defend Our Juries (we defend our jurors) that suspended the act of protest planned. The group has been summoning protests throughout the country against the government’s decision to declare terrorist group to Palestine Action, a network of activists who have starred acts of sabotage against Israeli interests in the United Kingdom and against British military facilities.
However, at one o’clock in the afternoon (two in the afternoon, in Spanish peninsular hours), hundreds of people have concentrated on Trafalgar Square, the legendary Plaza del Centro E London, the scene of historical manifestations. Dozens of them have begun to write with black markers in white banners that the organization had distributed or that many carried the slogan “I oppose the genocide. Support for Palestine Action.”
A massive police deployment was already prepared in the square, and the agents have begun to arrest, methodically, to each of those who expressed their support for the organization. Many of them were over seventy years old, they got carried away by agents, without resistance.
“I am very sorry for the deaths of Manchester. It is a tragedy and I am sorry for all who have died, their relatives and the police involved. But hundreds of people have already died in Gaza since the attack of the synagogue. I want our government to stop supporting Israel,” Richard, a man of little more than sixty years that he expected, sitting on the ground, sitting on the ground. rest.
since under current legislation that support is considered a crime. Scotland Yard explained in his text that the need to allocate many more agents to the protection of the Jewish community, after Mercanster attack, made it difficult to respond to a new protest.
Defend Our Juries, who is confident of overcoming the 1,500 arrests on Saturday, has refused to suspend the act.
