British police arrested a man on Wednesday (December 1st) on suspicion of breaking into the grounds of Westminster Parliament in London, a security alert that comes amid a sensitive UK context.
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"
A man was arrested and taken into custody at Carriage Gate,
" one of the building's gates, "
suspected of trespassing on a protected site
," London police said in a statement, stressing that the facts are not considered to be of a “
terrorist
”
nature
. This incident comes after two attacks considered terrorist by the police: the explosion in mid-November of a taxi in Liverpool (north), in which the assailant was killed, and the death of MP David Amess, stabbed in October during a parliamentary office where he received his constituents.
The level of the terrorist threat was raised to "
serious
" after the attack on Liverpool, the fourth level out of five.
The incident on Wednesday took place at the same spot where, in 2017, a policeman was stabbed to death by a 52-year-old Briton who converted to Islam and known to the police, who had just mowed down pedestrians with his car on Westminster Bridge.
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A total of five people were killed in the attack claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
