British police announced that they had arrested two men on Wednesday (January 26th) in Manchester, in the north-west of England, as part of the investigation into the hostage-taking in a synagogue in Texas in mid-January.
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They remain in custody for questioning
," Manchester Police said on Twitter.
The latter had already arrested four men to question them as part of this investigation.
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The FBI, the American federal police, identified a 44-year-old British national, Malik Faisal Akram, as the hostage taker in a synagogue in Colleyville, a town of about 23,000 inhabitants located about forty kilometers from Dallas, in Texas (southern United States).
He was killed in the January 15 assault by police while the four hostages were all released unharmed.
According to British media, Malik Faisal, who lived in Blackburn, in the north of England, was the subject of an investigation in 2020 by the United Kingdom's internal intelligence service (MI5), which concluded that a lack of threat.
He had however said that he had been praying for “
two years
” to die as a martyr, during an exchange with his brother revealed by the newspaper The Jewish Chronicle.
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