A man who stabbed a stranger to death in an attack described by a judge as a terrorist act has been jailed for life. Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid, 45, roamed the streets in Hartlepool looking for a victim to attack in “revenge” for the Israel-Hamas conflict in October. He...
Daily Archives: January 12, 2025
Detective tells Melbourne court he believes accused terrorist Neil Prakash no longer holds extremist views after experiencing the conditions in Syria. One of Australia’s most notorious alleged terrorists no longer holds his extremist views, according to the investigator leading the federal police probe into him. Neil Christopher Prakash is facing...
A man from Bedfordshire who was arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence as part of an investigation being led by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command remains in police custody. The 31-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday, 14 May on suspicion of possession of articles for terrorist purposes,...
LONDON (Reuters) – British police charged a man with multiple counts of racially aggravated criminal damage on Thursday, after a series of anti-Muslim incidents last October and November at the office that serves Palestinian interests as well as mosques and businesses in the capital. Police said Jonathan Katan was arrested...
French police have killed an armed man who wanted to set fire to a synagogue in the north-western city of Rouen, France’s interior minister has said. The man was armed with a knife and an iron bar and when he went towards police they shot him, reports say. Rouen Mayor...
Slovakian prime minister Robert Fido escaped death “by just a hair” according to the country’s president-elect, who confirmed if the gunshot wounds sustained in the attack were a few millimetres either side, he would have died. A suspected “lone wolf” gunman has been charged with the attempted murder of Robert Fico, the...
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a stable but serious condition after being shot several times on Wednesday, doctors have said. Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak added that Mr Fico’s injuries were “complicated”. Earlier Mr Fico, 59, was said to have been fighting for his life after being gravely...
Three men have appeared in court charged with terrorism offences over an alleged plan for a gun attack targeting the Jewish community in the north-west of England. Walid Saadaoui, 36, and Amar Hussein, 50, have been charged with the preparation of terrorist acts between 13 December 2023 and 9 May...
The mother and girlfriend of two Islamist terrorists have been convicted separately of failing to report plans for a terror attack. Tasnia Ahmed, 21, from Tower Hamlets in east London, failed to report her then would-be terrorist boyfriend Al-Arfat Hassan to the police despite knowing he intended to carry out a mass casualty attack using...
Mason Reynolds of Moulsecoomb Way was convicted following a trial at Winchester Crown Court. Reynolds faced one count of possessing an article for the purpose of terrorism, under Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Additionally, he admitted to five counts of collecting information useful to terrorism and five counts...
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