Mark Rowley 氏は、Zack Polanski 氏のコメントが「危険な」容疑者に立ち向かう警察官を萎縮させるリスクがあると述べている。Metropolitan police のトップによれば、Green party リーダーの Zack Polanski 氏は、Golders Green での刺傷事件後に批判的なソーシャルメディアの投稿を共有したことで、危険な人物に対処する警察官の自信を軽率にも損なわせた。水曜日、ロンドン北西部の郊外で2人のユダヤ人が刺された事件を受け、警察官が容疑者を拘束する様子が映像に収められていた。 続きを読む...
British investigators are circumspect, but experts and security officials say incident has hallmarks of Iranian intelligenceMiddle East crisis – live updatesFrom Golders Green, where four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set alight in the early hours of Monday, a tangled trail likely leads across two continents to Tehran.British investigators are circumspect. Speaking at an event on Monday evening, Sir Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan police, described a “very relevant and rolling threat” from Iran to the UK and specifically to Jewish targets but warned it was still “too early” to attribute the attack in north London to Tehran. Continue reading...
Local people say incident is just the latest example of hostility that has built up over a long timeThe blasts that boomed out in the early hours of Monday in suburban north-west London struck terror into people living in the surrounding streets. Their effects in Golders Green, with its large Jewish population, were still reverberating later that morning.The antisemitic attack, in which four ambulances run by the Jewish charity Hatzola were set on fire, has left local people afraid. They are afraid because of the incident itself but also because of what they see as a febrile atmosphere of antisemitism in the UK more generally. Continue reading...