He is said to have recognized 13 terrorist offenses and was sentenced in 2018.
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UA “Islamist” knife attack on a south London shopping street on Sunday left three people injured, including one serious, according to police who killed the attacker, who carried a fake “device”.
The perpetrator of the knife attack which left three people injured in London on Sunday had already been sentenced for spreading Islamist propaganda and was recently released from prison, according to British media reports.
According to the Guardian, the assailant, shot dead by the police, had recognized 13 terrorist crimes and had been sentenced in 2018, when he was 18 years old, after having notably shared in a family group on Whatsapp messaging a magazine linked to Al-Qaeda . Sky News said he was released in January after serving half of his three-year prison sentence.
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“Fundamental changes”
Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to announce “fundamental changes” to the treatment of perpetrators on Monday. His government had already tightened the law following the attack claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State, which killed two people at the end of November at London Bridge, in the center of the British capital.
On Sunday, the incident took place around 2 p.m. local time in the residential area of Streatham, on a busy street.
Police said two people were stabbed by the assailant, shot dead by the police, and a third was injured by a shard of glass caused by police fire. The attacker was carrying “a device attached to the body,” the Metropolitan police said, confirming testimony gathered by the AFP. “It was quickly established that this was a fake.”
Terrorist in nature
“The incident was quickly declared to be of a terrorist nature and we believe it to be of an Islamist nature,” the same source said in a statement.
While questions had arisen about the unusual speed of the police in qualifying the facts in this way, the police explained that officers from its anti-terrorist unit were there “in the framework of a preventive operation”, suggesting that the assailant was being watched as claimed by British media.
Bell deputy Bell Ribeiro-Addy said on British television that “the police have been monitoring (the assailant) for some time”.
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